The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 31
You shall then say to him that you know well enough what it is that is weighing upon him--that it is the debt which he owes to the troll and cannot pay, but that you can lend him the money.
Who acts: You, debt · What happens: say, know, weigh, be, owe, not pay · To what, where: kingdom, debt, troll, money · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, debt), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 say | advmod |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 know | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | advcl |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 know | advmod |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 9 know | advmod |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 weighing | nsubj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 weighing | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 weighing | aux |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 weighing | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 weighing | aux |
| 17 | weighing | weigh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 say | ccomp |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 weighing | obl |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 debt | punct |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 debt | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 debt | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 debt | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 debt | det |
| 25 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 weighing | parataxis |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 owes | nsubj |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 owes | nsubj |
| 28 | owes | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 debt | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 troll | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 troll | det |
| 31 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 owes | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 pay | cc |
| 33 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 pay | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 pay | advmod |
| 35 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 owes | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 lend | punct |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 lend | cc |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 lend | mark |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 lend | nsubj |
| 40 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 lend | aux |
| 41 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 say | parataxis |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 lend | obj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 money | det |
| 44 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 lend | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | shall | You | kingdom | then | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | know | present | you | enough, well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | weigh | present · progressive | upon kingdom | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | debt | the debt | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | owe | present | the debt | to the troll goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to troll=Goal | ||||
| 6 | not pay | can | the debt not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | lend | can | you | the money | kingdom | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient money=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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