The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 108

They stared at him in astonishment, and besought him not to be so mad and to throw away his life in such a foolish manner; but he only laughed, and answered that if they could tell him of any other way in which to procure a cow and a pig to fatten, he would think no more about it.

Who acts: muleteers, mind, other way · What happens: stare, beseech, not be, throw away, laugh, answer · To what, where: astonishment, mind, life, foolish manner, cow, more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (muleteers, mind, other way), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stared	nsubj
2	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stared	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 astonishment	case
6	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stared	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 besought	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 besought	cc
9	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stared	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 besought	obj
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 mad	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	15 mad	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 mad	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 mad	advmod
15	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 besought	advcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 throw	cc
17	to	to	PART	_	18 throw	mark
18	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 mad	conj
19	away	away	ADP	_	18 throw	compound:prt
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 life	nmod:poss
21	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 throw	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	26 manner	case
23	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	26 manner	det:predet
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 manner	det
25	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 manner	amod
26	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 throw	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 laughed	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 laughed	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 laughed	nsubj
30	only	only	ADV	_	31 laughed	advmod
31	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stared	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 answered	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 answered	cc
34	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 laughed	conj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 tell	mark
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 tell	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 tell	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 tell	aux
39	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 answered	ccomp
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 tell	iobj
41	of	of	ADP	_	44 way	case
42	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	44 way	det
43	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 way	amod
44	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 tell	obl
45	in	in	ADP	_	46 which	case
46	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 procure	nsubj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 procure	mark
48	procure	procure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 way	acl:relcl
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 cow	det
50	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 procure	obj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 pig	cc
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 pig	det
53	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 cow	conj
54	to	to	PART	_	55 fatten	mark
55	fatten	fatten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 procure	advcl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 think	punct
57	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 think	nsubj
58	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 think	aux
59	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 tell	conj
60	no	no	ADV	_	61 more	advmod
61	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	59 think	obj
62	about	about	ADP	_	63 it	case
63	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 more	nmod
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stare	past	muleteers = muleteer			astonishment	at mind	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
2	beseech	past	muleteers = muleteer not said here	mind				tree rules
3	not is	to-infinitive	muleteers = muleteer not said here				mad property	tree rules
4	throw away	to-infinitive	muleteers = muleteer not said here	mind's life		such foolish manner		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent life=Theme in manner=Destination
5	laugh	past	mind					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	answer speech: assert	past	mind not said here					tree rules
7	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	could	muleteers = muleteer		mind		of any other way	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
8	procure	to-infinitive	any other way	a cow and a pig				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme
9	fatten	to-infinitive	any other way not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
10	think speech: other	would	mind	more			about pig	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=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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