The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 80

‘I sent a slave with some grain to your sister to buy some pumpkins, but she would not sell me any, and told me there were none, though I know she lets other people buy them.’

Who acts: I, sister, none, other people · What happens: send, buy, not sell, tell, be, know · To what, where: slave, sister, pumpkins, any, me · 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 (I, sister, none, other people), 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	_	3 sent	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 slave	det
5	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 grain	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 grain	det
8	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 sister	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sister	nmod:poss
11	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 buy	mark
13	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	advcl
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 pumpkins	det
15	pumpkins	pumpkin	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 buy	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sell	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 sell	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sell	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 sell	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 sell	advmod
21	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	advcl
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 sell	iobj
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 sell	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 told	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 told	cc
26	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 told	iobj
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 were	expl
29	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 told	conj
30	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	29 were	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 know	punct
32	though	though	SCONJ	_	34 know	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 know	nsubj
34	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 told	ccomp
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 lets	nsubj
36	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 know	ccomp
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 people	amod
38	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 buy	nsubj
39	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 lets	xcomp
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 buy	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past	I	a slave	your sister		with some grain	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent slave=Theme to sister=Destination
2	buy	to-infinitive	I not said here	some pumpkins				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pumpkin=Theme
3	not sell	would	sister	any	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient any=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	I not said here		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
5	be	past	none			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	know	present	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	let	present	sister					tree rules
8	buy	present	other people	pumpkins = pumpkin				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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