The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 100

‘Lord!’ said the scholar, ‘sooner than see a man like thee at such a work, I would give thee a pound which I have received as alms to let it go free.’

Who acts: Lord, I, pound · What happens: say, see, give, receive, let, go · To what, where: scholar, man, work, pound, thee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord, I, pound), 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 Lord	punct
2	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Lord	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Lord	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 scholar	det
7	scholar	scholar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
10	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 see	advmod
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 see	obj
15	like	like	ADP	_	16 thee	case
16	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 see	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 work	case
18	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	20 work	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 work	det
20	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 see	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 give	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 give	aux
24	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 see	conj
25	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 give	iobj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 pound	det
27	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 give	obj
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 received	nsubj:pass
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 received	nsubj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 received	aux
31	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 pound	acl:relcl
32	as	as	ADP	_	33 alms	case
33	alms	alm	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 received	obl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 let	mark
35	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 received	advcl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 let	obj
37	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 let	xcomp
38	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 go	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Lord	the scholar				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent scholar=Topic
2	see	infinitive	Lord not said here	a man		such work	like thee; soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
3	give	would	I	a pound	thee			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient pound=Theme
4	receive	present · perfect · passive		a pound			as alms	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	let	to-infinitive		pound				tree rules
6	go	infinitive	pound not said here				free property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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