The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 65

‘You could have the farm at once, you know,’ said the peasant, ‘and we old people would retire.

Who acts: You, we · What happens: have, know, say, retire · To what, where: farm, peasant · 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 (You, we), 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	_	4 have	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 farm	det
6	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 have	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 peasant	det
16	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ‘	punct
18	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 peasant	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 retire	cc
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 retire	nsubj
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 people	amod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 retire	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 retire	aux
24	retire	retire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	could	You	the farm	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Patient
2	know	present	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past		the peasant and ‘	tree rules
4	retire	would	we		vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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