The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 111

‘It is true that a mouse is worth nothing, but rather than see thee defile thyself with touching such a reptile as this, I will give thee three pounds for it.’

Who acts: freedom, mouse, I · What happens: be, see, touch, give · To what, where: nothing, thee, reptile, three pounds

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 (freedom, mouse, 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	_	4 true	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 true	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 nothing	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mouse	det
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nothing	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 nothing	cop
9	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nothing	amod
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 true	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 see	cc
13	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	15 see	cc
14	than	than	ADP	_	13 rather	fixed
15	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 true	parataxis
16	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	15 see	obj
17	defile	defile	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj
18	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	17 defile	conj
19	with	with	SCONJ	_	20 touching	mark
20	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 see	advcl
21	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	23 reptile	det:predet
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 reptile	det
23	reptile	reptile	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 touching	obj
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 this	case
25	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 touching	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 give	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 give	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 give	aux
29	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 see	conj
30	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	29 give	iobj
31	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 pounds	nummod
32	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 give	obj
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 give	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	freedom			true property	tree rules
2	is a	present	a mouse	nothing			tree rules
3	see	infinitive		thee			tree rules
4	touch	gerund		such reptile		as this	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme reptile=Co-Theme
5	give	future	I	three pounds	thee	for freedom	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient pound=Theme for it=Asset

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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