The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 134

‘If my father loses that game, and you win it,’ said she, ‘accept nothing for your prize but the shaggy young horse with the stick saddle.’

Who acts: father, you, wife · What happens: lose, win, say, accept · To what, where: game, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, you, wife), 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 loses	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 loses	mark
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 father	nmod:poss
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loses	nsubj
5	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 game	det
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loses	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 win	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 win	cc
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 win	nsubj
11	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 loses	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 win	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 win	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 loses	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 accept	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 accept	punct
19	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 accept	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 prize	case
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 prize	nmod:poss
23	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 nothing	nmod
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 horse	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 horse	det
26	shaggy	shaggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 horse	amod
27	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 horse	amod
28	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 nothing	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 saddle	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 saddle	det
31	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 saddle	compound
32	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 horse	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 accept	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 accept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose a condition, not said to happen	present	my father	that game		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality
2	win	present	you	game		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	accept	infinitive		nothing	for your prize	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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