The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 79

‘You must go at once and tell the clerk,’ said she, ‘and pay him the hundred dollars of his own money that he spent upon our son.

Who acts: You, wife, own money · What happens: go, tell, say, pay, spend · To what, where: clerk, Bull · 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, wife, own money), 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 go	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 go	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tell	cc
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 clerk	det
10	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pay	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 pay	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 pay	cc
18	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pay	obj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hundred	det
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 dollars	nummod
22	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 pay	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 money	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 money	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 money	amod
26	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dollars	nmod
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 spent	nsubj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 spent	nsubj
29	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 money	acl:relcl
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 son	case
31	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 son	nmod:poss
32	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 spent	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	must	You				vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	You not said here	the clerk			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent clerk=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pay	infinitive	wife not said here		Bull		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dollar=Asset
5	spend	past	Bull's own money			upon our son	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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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