The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 124

‘I will give thee four and twenty pounds to set it free,’ said the bishop.

Who acts: I, bishop · What happens: give, set, say · To what, where: four pounds, thee, pound · 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 (I, bishop), 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 give	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
5	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 give	iobj
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 pounds	nummod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 twenty	cc
8	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 four	conj
9	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 set	mark
11	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 give	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 set	obj
13	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 set	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bishop	det
18	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	future	I	four pounds	thee		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient pound=Theme
2	set	to-infinitive	I not said here	pound		free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result
3	say speech: assert	past	the bishop				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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