The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 61
You sold us a ram knowing full well that it was a wolf, and we came here to-day to pay you out for it.
Who acts: You, ram, manner, we · What happens: sell, know, be, come, pay out · To what, where: ram, us, wolf, you · 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 (You, ram, manner, we), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 sold | nsubj |
| 2 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 sold | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ram | det |
| 5 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sold | obj |
| 6 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 ram | acl |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 knowing | xcomp |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 knowing | advmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 wolf | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wolf | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wolf | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wolf | det |
| 13 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knowing | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sold | conj |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 came | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 day | case |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 to | punct |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 pay | mark |
| 23 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 came | advcl |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 pay | obj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 pay | compound:prt |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 pay | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | past | You | a ram | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient ram=Theme | |||
| 2 | know | gerund | a ram not said here | full, well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | manner | a wolf | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | past | we | here | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | pay out | to-infinitive | we not said here | you | for manner | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Asset for it=Theme |
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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