The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 60

‘Will you sell me your horse, son of the fisherman?’ and looking up he beheld a man standing in the road with a gun in his hand, a falcon on his shoulder, and a dog by his side.

Who acts: you, horse, man · What happens: sell, look up, behold, stand · To what, where: horse, me, man, road

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, horse, man), 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	_	4 sell	punct
2	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sell	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 sell	nsubj
4	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sell	iobj
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 horse	nmod:poss
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sell	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 son	punct
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 horse	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 fisherman	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fisherman	det
12	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 son	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sell	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 sell	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 beheld	cc
16	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 beheld	advcl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 looking	compound:prt
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 beheld	nsubj
19	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sell	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 beheld	obj
22	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 man	acl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 road	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 road	det
25	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 standing	obl
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 gun	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 gun	det
28	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 standing	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 hand	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hand	nmod:poss
31	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gun	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 falcon	punct
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 falcon	det
34	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hand	appos
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 shoulder	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 shoulder	nmod:poss
37	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 falcon	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 side	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 side	cc
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 dog	det
41	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 side	nsubj
42	by	by	ADP	_	44 side	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 side	nmod:poss
44	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 beheld	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sell	future	you	your horse	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient horse=Theme
2	look up	gerund	horse not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	behold	past	horse	a man			by horse's side	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4	stand	gerund	a man not said here			the road	with a gun in horse's hand	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in road=Location

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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