The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 85

‘When her slave arrived two days ago, there were only four left; but I gave him one, and would take no corn for it.’

Who acts: slave, I, four · What happens: arrive, be, leave, give, take · To what, where: one, husband, corn

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 (slave, I, four), 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	_	11 were	punct
2	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 arrived	mark
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 slave	nmod:poss
4	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arrived	nsubj
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 were	advcl
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 days	nummod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ago	obl:unmarked
8	ago	ago	ADV	_	5 arrived	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 arrived	punct
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 were	expl
11	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 gave	advcl
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 four	advmod
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 left	nsubj
14	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 were	ccomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 gave	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 gave	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 gave	nsubj
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gave	iobj
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 gave	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 take	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 take	cc
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 take	aux
24	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 gave	parataxis
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 corn	det
26	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 take	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 take	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	sister's slave				ago property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	past	I not said here			there		tree rules
3	leave	participle	four					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give	past	I	one	husband			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient one=Theme
5	take	would		no corn			for slave	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent corn=Theme for it=Beneficiary

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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