The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 81

‘If we could only manage to buy a cow and get a pig to fatten,’ grumbled Houarn, ‘I would rent a bit of ground from the master, and then we could be married.’

Who acts: we, pig, I · What happens: manage, buy, get, fatten, grumble, rent · To what, where: cow, pig, Houarn, bit, master, we

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 (we, pig, 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	_	6 manage	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 manage	mark
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 manage	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 manage	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 manage	advmod
6	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 grumbled	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 buy	mark
8	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 manage	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cow	det
10	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 buy	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 get	cc
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 buy	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pig	det
14	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 fatten	mark
16	fatten	fatten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 get	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 manage	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 manage	punct
19	grumbled	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	Houarn	Houarn	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 grumbled	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 rent	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 rent	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 rent	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 rent	aux
25	rent	rent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 grumbled	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 bit	det
27	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rent	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 ground	case
29	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bit	nmod
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 master	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 master	det
32	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rent	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 married	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 married	cc
35	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 married	advmod
36	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 married	nsubj:pass
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 married	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 married	aux:pass
39	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 rent	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 married	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	39 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	manage a condition, not said to happen	could	we				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	buy	to-infinitive	we not said here	a cow			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme
3	get	infinitive	we not said here	a pig			tree rules
4	fatten	to-infinitive	a pig not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	grumble speech: other	past		Houarn			tree rules
6	rent	would	I	a bit of ground	the master		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bit=Theme from master=Source
7	marry	could · passive		we		then	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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