The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 76

‘That I will tell thee,’ he replied, and then he showed her how his fields of corn had been wasted, and how he had watched for the mice.

Who acts: That, thief · What happens: tell, reply, show, waste, watch · To what, where: thee, Kieva, fields · 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 (That, thief), 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	_	5 tell	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 tell	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 replied	ccomp
6	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 tell	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 replied	nsubj
10	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 showed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 showed	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 showed	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 showed	nsubj
15	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 replied	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 showed	iobj
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 wasted	advmod
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 fields	nmod:poss
19	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 wasted	nsubj:pass
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 corn	case
21	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wasted	obl
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 wasted	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 wasted	aux:pass
24	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 showed	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 watched	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 watched	cc
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 watched	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 watched	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 watched	aux
30	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 wasted	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 mice	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 mice	det
33	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 watched	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	That		thee			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient
2	reply speech: assert	past	thief					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	show	past	thief		Kieva	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	waste	past · perfect · passive		thief's fields			of corn	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	watch	past · perfect	thief				for the mice	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for mouse=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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