The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 87
‘I would give a hundred pounds to marry her,’ said one.
Who acts: I · What happens: give, marry, say · To what, where: hundred pounds, girl, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hundred | det |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 pounds | nummod |
| 7 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 marry | mark |
| 9 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 give | advcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 marry | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | would | I | hundred pounds | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pound=Theme | ||||
| 2 | marry | to-infinitive | I not said here | girl | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | one | tree rules |
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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