The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 28

Never had they beheld such a beautiful beast, said they, and at last, after much bargaining, he was handed over to three brothers for a good sum of money.

Who acts: farmers · What happens: not have, behold, say, bargain, hand over, sum · To what, where: beautiful beast, ram, three brothers, money · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmers), 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 had	advmod
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beheld	nsubj
4	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 beast	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 beast	det
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 beast	amod
8	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beheld	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 last	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 last	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bargaining	punct
17	after	after	SCONJ	_	19 bargaining	mark
18	much	much	ADV	_	19 bargaining	advmod
19	bargaining	bargain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 had	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 handed	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 handed	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 handed	aux:pass
23	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 bargaining	conj
24	over	over	ADP	_	23 handed	compound:prt
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 brothers	case
26	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 brothers	nummod
27	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 handed	obl
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 sum	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 sum	det
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sum	amod
31	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 handed	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 money	case
33	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sum	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not have	past					tree rules
2	behold	past	farmers = farmer	such beautiful beast			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beast=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	farmers = farmer				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	bargain	gerund					vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hand over	past · passive		ram	three brothers	for a good sum of money	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to brother=Destination
6	sum			money			nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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