The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 58

‘What do you mean?’ cried Moti, with his mouth full of rice, ‘it’s my horse; I paid you fifty pieces of silver for it--quite a bargain, I’m sure!’

Who acts: you, Moti, I · What happens: mean, cry, pay, be · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Moti, I), 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	_	5 mean	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 mean	obj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 mean	nsubj
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	ccomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cried	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mouth	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 mouth	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mouth	nmod:poss
13	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Moti	appos
14	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mouth	amod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 rice	case
16	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 full	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ’s	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 ’s	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ’s	nsubj
20	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	conj
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 horse	nmod:poss
22	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ’s	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 paid	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 paid	nsubj
25	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	conj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 paid	obj
27	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 pieces	nummod
28	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 paid	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 silver	case
30	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pieces	nmod
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 silver	nmod
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 bargain	punct
34	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	36 bargain	det:predet
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 bargain	det
36	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pieces	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 ’m	punct
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 ’m	nsubj
39	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	parataxis
40	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 ’m	xcomp
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	40 sure	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	39 ’m	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	you			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	cry speech: express	past	Moti			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pay	past	I	you		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient piece=Asset
4	be	present	I		sure property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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