The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 13

‘My name is Houarn,’ he answered, ‘Lanillis is my home, and I am trying to earn enough money to buy a little cow and a pig to fatten.’

Who acts: name, Houarn, Lanillis, I, My · What happens: be, answer, try, earn, buy, fatten · To what, where: Houarn, home, enough money, little cow

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Houarn, Lanillis, 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	_	5 Houarn	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 name	nmod:poss
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Houarn	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Houarn	cop
5	Houarn	Houarn	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 answered	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Houarn	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 Houarn	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 answered	nsubj
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 home	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 home	punct
12	Lanillis	Lanillis	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 home	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 home	cop
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 home	nmod:poss
15	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 trying	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 trying	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 trying	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 trying	aux
20	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 answered	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 earn	mark
22	earn	earn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 trying	xcomp
23	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 money	amod
24	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 earn	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 buy	mark
26	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 earn	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 cow	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cow	amod
29	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 buy	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 pig	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 pig	det
32	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cow	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 fatten	mark
34	fatten	fatten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 pig	acl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 trying	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	My name	Houarn	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	Houarn		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	Lanillis	my home	tree rules
4	try	present · progressive	I		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	earn not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	enough money	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
6	buy	to-infinitive	I not said here	a little cow and a pig	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme
7	fatten	to-infinitive	I not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	name		My		nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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