The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 34

But the brandy went up in price, and the taverner said that he must have fourpence for the half-pint.

Who acts: brandy, taverner · What happens: go up, say, have · To what, where: fourpence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brandy, taverner), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 went	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brandy	det
3	brandy	brandy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 went	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 price	case
7	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 taverner	det
11	taverner	taverner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 have	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
17	fourpence	fourpence	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	22 pint	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pint	det
20	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	22 pint	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 half	punct
22	pint	pint	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go up	past	the brandy		in price	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in price=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	the taverner			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	must	taverner	fourpence	for the half pint	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fourpence=Patient

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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