The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 84

‘Beg of her to lend me a horse and armour,’ said Owen, and the maiden did so, but the countess laughed somewhat bitterly as she answered:

Who acts: Owen, maiden, countess · What happens: lend, say, do, laugh, answer · To what, where: horse, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Owen, maiden, countess), 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	_	2 Beg	punct
2	Beg	beg	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	ccomp
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Beg	nmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 lend	mark
6	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Beg	acl
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 lend	iobj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 horse	det
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lend	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 armour	cc
11	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 horse	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Beg	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 did	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 did	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 maiden	det
19	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 did	nsubj
20	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
21	so	so	ADV	_	20 did	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 laughed	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 laughed	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 countess	det
25	countess	countess	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 laughed	nsubj
26	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
27	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	26 laughed	advmod
28	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	26 laughed	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 answered	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 answered	nsubj
31	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 laughed	advcl
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	lend	to-infinitive	Owen not said here	a horse and armour	me		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient horse=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Owen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	do	past	the maiden				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	laugh	past	the countess			bitterly, somewhat property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	answer speech: assert	past	countess				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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