The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 41

‘Sell him to us,’ said the robbers.

What happens: sell, say · To what, where: donkey, robbers · 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: 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	_	2 Sell	punct
2	Sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Sell	iobj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 us	case
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Sell	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sell	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Sell	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 robbers	det
10	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	infinitive			donkey			to us	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to we=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past		the robbers					tree rules

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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