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The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 106

The girl answered that these shrieks were heard every night, but it was no living being who uttered them; it was a dead man, who life the host had taken because he could not pay for the meals he had had in the inn.

Who acts: girl, den, living, dead man, life, prince · What happens: answer, hear, be, life, take, not pay · To what, where: shrieks, living, dead man, host, meals, inn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, den, living, dead man), 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

detnsubjmarkdetnsubj:passaux:passccompdetobl:unmarkedpunctccnsubjcopdetconjcopnsubjacl:relclobjpunctnsubjcopdetamodoblpunctnsubjconjdetnsubj:passauxacl:relclmarknsubjauxadvmodccompcasedetoblnsubjauxacl:relclcasedetoblpunctrootTheDETgirlNOUNansweredVERBthatSCONJtheseDETshrieksNOUNwereAUXheardVERBeveryDETnightNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJitPRONwasAUXnoDETlivingNOUNbeingAUXwhoPRONutteredVERBthemPRON;PUNCTitPRONwasAUXaDETdeadADJmanNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONlifeNOUNtheDEThostNOUNhadAUXtakenVERBbecauseSCONJhePRONcouldAUXnotPARTpayVERBforADPtheDETmealsNOUNhePRONhadAUXhadVERBinADPtheDETinnNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 girldet
2girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing3 answerednsubj
3answeredanswerVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thatthatSCONJ_8 heardmark
5thesethisDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem6 shrieksdet
6shrieksshriekNOUNNumber=Plur8 heardnsubj:pass
7werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 heardaux:pass
8heardhearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 answeredccomp
9everyeveryDETPronType=Tot10 nightdet
10nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing8 heardobl:unmarked
11,,PUNCT_16 livingpunct
12butbutCCONJ_16 livingcc
13ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 livingnsubj
14wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 livingcop
15nonoDETPronType=Neg16 livingdet
16livinglivingNOUNNumber=Sing8 heardconj
17beingbeAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part19 utteredcop
18whowhoPRONPronType=Rel19 utterednsubj
19utteredutterVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 livingacl:relcl
20themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs19 utteredobj
21;;PUNCT_26 manpunct
22ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 mannsubj
23wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 mancop
24aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 mandet
25deaddeadADJDegree=Pos26 manamod
26manmanNOUNNumber=Sing3 answeredobl
27,,PUNCT_29 lifepunct
28whowhoPRONPronType=Rel29 lifensubj
29lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing26 manconj
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 hostdet
31hosthostNOUNNumber=Sing33 takennsubj:pass
32hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin33 takenaux
33takentakeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass29 lifeacl:relcl
34becausebecauseSCONJ_38 paymark
35hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs38 paynsubj
36couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin38 payaux
37notnotPARTPolarity=Neg38 payadvmod
38paypayVERBVerbForm=Inf33 takenccomp
39forforADP_41 mealscase
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 mealsdet
41mealsmealNOUNNumber=Plur38 payobl
42hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs44 hadnsubj
43hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin44 hadaux
44hadhaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part41 mealsacl:relcl
45ininADP_47 inncase
46thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art47 inndet
47inninnNOUNNumber=Sing44 hadobl
48..PUNCT_3 answeredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1answer speech: assertpastthe girltree rules
2hearpast · passivethis shrieksnightvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3is apastdenno livingtree rules
4isgerundno livingutter propertytree rules
5is apastdena dead man and lifetree rules
6lifea dead man and lifetree rules
7takepast · perfect · passivelife not said herethe hostvn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
8not paycouldprincefor the mealsvn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for meal=Theme
9havepast · perfectprincethe meals not said herethe innvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=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 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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