The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 106

‘There is a rich farmer up there on the hill, who has just sold all his fat cattle for much money and has bought some lean ones which will cost him little.

Who acts: rich farmer, lean ones · What happens: be, sell, buy, cost · To what, where: rich farmer, lean ones, son

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich farmer, lean ones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 farmer	amod
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
7	up	up	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 farmer	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 hill	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hill	det
11	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 there	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sold	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 sold	nsubj:pass
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sold	aux
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 sold	advmod
16	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 farmer	acl
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 cattle	det:predet
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 cattle	nmod:poss
19	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cattle	amod
20	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sold	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 money	case
22	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 money	amod
23	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sold	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bought	cc
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 bought	aux
26	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 sold	conj
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 ones	det
28	lean	lean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ones	amod
29	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bought	obj
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 cost	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 cost	aux
32	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 ones	acl:relcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cost	iobj
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 cost	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	a rich farmer			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sell	present · perfect · passive		a rich farmer			for much money	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient cattle=Theme for money=Asset
3	buy	present · perfect		some lean ones				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	cost	future	some lean ones		son			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme he=Value

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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