The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 121

‘Well, since I have come at the doom of this reptile, I will ransom it of thee for seven pounds, rather than see a man of thy rank touch it.

Who acts: I · What happens: come, ransom, see, touch, doom · To what, where: doom, reptile, man

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 (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	_	17 ransom	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	17 ransom	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	since	since	SCONJ	_	7 come	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 come	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 ransom	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 doom	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 doom	det
10	doom	doom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 reptile	case
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 reptile	det
13	reptile	reptile	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 doom	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 ransom	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 ransom	aux
17	ransom	ransom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ransom	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 thee	case
20	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 it	nmod
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 pounds	case
22	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 pounds	nummod
23	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ransom	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
25	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	27 see	cc
26	than	than	ADP	_	25 rather	fixed
27	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 ransom	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 man	det
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 see	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 rank	case
31	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	32 rank	nmod:poss
32	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 man	nmod
33	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 see	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 touch	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 ransom	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present · perfect	I		the doom of this reptile		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at doom=Location
2	ransom	future	I	reptile		for seven pounds	tree rules
3	see	infinitive		a man of thy rank			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4	touch	infinitive		reptile			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
5	doom			this reptile			nom doom «event transitive»: of=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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