The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 65

‘The poor beast must have lost its power owing to the change of masters,’ said he; ‘but we will not quarrel about it.

Who acts: power, Master, we, masters · What happens: lose, owe, say, not quarrel, change · To what, where: poor beast, change · 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 (power, Master, we, masters), 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	_	7 lost	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beast	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beast	amod
4	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	nsubj:pass
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 lost	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 lost	aux
7	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 said	ccomp
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 power	nmod:poss
9	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obj
10	owing	owe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 power	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 change	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 change	det
13	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 owing	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 masters	case
15	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 change	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lost	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 quarrel	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 quarrel	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 quarrel	cc
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 quarrel	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 quarrel	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 quarrel	advmod
26	quarrel	quarrel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	conj
27	about	about	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 quarrel	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose	must · perfect · passive		the poor beast		tree rules
2	owe	gerund	beast's power not said here		to the change of masters goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to change=Goal
3	say speech: assert	past	Master			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not quarrel	future	we		about beast	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about it=Theme
5	change		masters			nom change «event intransitive»: of=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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