The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 117

‘Well, we will forget all about it,’ answered the robbers, ‘if you will only sell us your dog.’

Who acts: we, you · What happens: forget, answer, sell · To what, where: robbers, dog, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, you), 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	_	6 forget	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 forget	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 forget	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 forget	aux
6	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 answered	ccomp
7	all	all	ADV	_	9 it	advmod
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 forget	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 forget	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 forget	punct
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 robbers	det
14	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 answered	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sell	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 sell	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 sell	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 sell	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 sell	aux
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 sell	advmod
21	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 answered	ccomp
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 sell	iobj
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 dog	nmod:poss
24	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sell	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 sell	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 sell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	forget	future	we			about guitar	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past		the robbers			tree rules
3	sell a condition, not said to happen	future	you	your dog	us		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient dog=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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