The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 139

And not only was I wroth, but my people likewise, and when it was known that thou wast come to dwell in the land, they besought me much to change them into mice, that they might eat thy corn.

Who acts: I, lands · What happens: not be, know, come, dwell, beseech, change · To what, where: spell, land, me, lands, corn

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, lands), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 wroth	cc
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 wroth	advmod
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 wroth	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wroth	cop
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 wroth	nsubj
6	wroth	wroth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 people	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 people	cc
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 people	nmod:poss
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wroth	obl
11	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	10 people	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 known	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 known	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 known	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 known	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 known	aux:pass
17	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 wroth	parataxis
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 wast	mark
19	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 wast	nsubj
20	wast	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 known	ccomp
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wast	xcomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 dwell	mark
23	dwell	dwell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	xcomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 land	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 land	det
26	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dwell	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 besought	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 besought	nsubj
29	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wroth	conj
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 besought	obj
31	much	much	ADV	_	29 besought	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 change	mark
33	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 besought	advcl
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 change	obj
35	into	into	ADP	_	36 mice	case
36	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 change	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 eat	punct
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 eat	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 eat	nsubj
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 eat	aux
41	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 change	conj
42	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	43 corn	nmod:poss
43	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 eat	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wroth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	I			my people obl; wroth property	tree rules
2	know	past · passive		spell			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
3	come	infinitive					tree rules
4	dwell	to-infinitive			the land		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location
5	beseech	past	lands = land	me			tree rules
6	change	to-infinitive	lands = land not said here	lands = land		into mice result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient into mouse=Result
7	eat	might	lands = land	thy corn			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=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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