The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 29

As for the muleteer, he was informed very plainly that he had proved himself mean and ungrateful for the help that had been given him, and as a punishment he must pay to the poor man a fine of fifty pounds, and hand him over the mule till his tail had grown again.

Who acts: man, you · What happens: inform, prove, mean, give, pay, hand · To what, where: man, help, fine, fifty pounds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, you), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 muleteer	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 muleteer	det
4	muleteer	muleteer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mean	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 muleteer	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 informed	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 informed	aux:pass
8	informed	inform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 mean	csubj
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 plainly	advmod
10	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	8 informed	advmod
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 proved	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 proved	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 proved	aux
14	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 mean	csubj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 proved	obj
16	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ungrateful	cc
18	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mean	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 help	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 help	det
21	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ungrateful	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 given	obj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 given	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 given	aux:pass
25	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 help	acl:relcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 given	iobj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 pay	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 pay	cc
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 punishment	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 punishment	det
31	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pay	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 pay	nsubj
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 pay	aux
34	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 mean	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	38 man	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 man	det
37	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 man	amod
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pay	obl
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 fine	det
40	fine	fine	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pay	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 pounds	case
42	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 pounds	nummod
43	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 fine	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 hand	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 hand	cc
46	hand	hand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 mean	parataxis
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 hand	obj
48	over	over	ADP	_	50 mule	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 mule	det
50	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 hand	obl
51	till	till	ADP	_	53 tail	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 tail	nmod:poss
53	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 grown	obl
54	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 grown	aux
55	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 hand	parataxis
56	again	again	ADV	_	55 grown	advmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 mean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	past · passive		man			plainly property	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	prove	past · perfect	man	man				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	mean	imperative	you not said here				as the muleteer	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as muleteer=Attribute
4	give	past · perfect · passive		the help	man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: he=Recipient that=Theme
5	pay	must	man	a fine of fifty pounds			as a punishment; to the poor man	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Asset
6	hand	infinitive		man			over the mule	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	grow	past · perfect				till man's tail; again		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	fine			fifty pounds				nom fine «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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