The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 36

He knew at once that it was not an ordinary one, so he also went inside, and offered the purchaser far more than he had paid for it, so the latter sold it to him.

Who acts: horse, two, latter · What happens: know, not be, go, offer, pay, sell · To what, where: ordinary one, purchaser, horse, two

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, two, latter), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 knew	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 one	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 one	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 one	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 one	advmod
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 once	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	nsubj
15	also	also	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	conj
17	inside	inside	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 offered	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 offered	cc
20	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 purchaser	det
22	purchaser	purchaser	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 offered	obj
23	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 more	advmod
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 purchaser	acl:relcl
25	than	than	SCONJ	_	28 paid	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 paid	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 paid	aux
28	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 more	advcl
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 paid	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sold	punct
32	so	so	ADV	_	35 sold	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 latter	det
34	latter	latter	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 sold	nsubj
35	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 offered	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 sold	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 sold	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	horse				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not is a	past	two	a ordinary one			tree rules
3	go	past	horse			inside property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	offer	past		the purchaser			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent purchaser=Theme
5	pay	past · perfect · passive		horse		for two	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for it=Theme
6	sell	past	the latter	two	horse		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient

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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