The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 89

‘That is no business of mine,’ answered the shoemaker, and the young men bade him ask her if she would choose one of them for a husband, and to tell them on the morrow.

Who acts: That, business, young men · What happens: be, answer, bade, ask, choose, tell · To what, where: business, shoemaker, one, man, morrow · 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 (That, business, young men), 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	_	5 business	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 business	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 business	cop
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 business	det
5	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 mine	case
7	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 business	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 business	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 business	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shoemaker	det
12	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bade	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bade	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 men	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 men	amod
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bade	nsubj
18	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bade	obj
20	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 bade	xcomp
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ask	iobj
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 choose	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 choose	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 choose	aux
25	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 ask	ccomp
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 choose	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 one	nmod
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 husband	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 husband	det
31	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 choose	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 tell	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 tell	cc
34	to	to	PART	_	35 tell	mark
35	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 answered	conj
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 tell	iobj
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 morrow	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 morrow	det
39	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tell	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	no business			of mine	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	no business	the shoemaker				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shoemaker=Eventuality
3	bade	past	the young men	shoemaker				tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	infinitive	the young men not said here		business			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	choose a condition, not said to happen	would	business	one of man			for a husband	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent one=Theme for husband=Beneficiary
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	no business not said here		man	the morrow		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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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