The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 51

‘Well,’ said the squire, ‘I generally have twenty-four men at this time of the year, but I have only twelve just now, so I can easily take you on.’

Who acts: I · What happens: say, have, take on · To what, where: squire, four men, twelve, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 squire	det
7	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
11	generally	generally	ADV	_	12 have	advmod
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
13	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 four	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 twenty	punct
15	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 men	nummod
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 time	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 year	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 year	det
22	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 time	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 have	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
26	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
27	only	only	ADV	_	28 twelve	advmod
28	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 have	obj
29	just	just	ADV	_	30 now	advmod
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 have	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 take	punct
32	so	so	ADV	_	36 take	advmod
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 take	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 take	aux
35	easily	easily	ADV	_	36 take	advmod
36	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 have	conj
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 take	obj
38	on	on	ADP	_	36 take	compound:prt
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the squire			tree rules
2	have	present	I	four men	time	generally property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
3	have	present	I	twelve	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient
4	take on	can	I	you		easily property	vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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