The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 68

‘I have paid every penny,’ and no more would he say.

Who acts: I, Ciccu · What happens: pay, say · To what, where: penny · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Ciccu), 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	_	4 paid	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 paid	aux
4	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 penny	det
6	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 paid	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 paid	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 say	cc
10	no	no	ADV	_	11 more	advmod
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 say	advmod
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 say	aux
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 say	nsubj
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 paid	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present · perfect	I	every penny					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penny=Asset
2	say speech: assert	would	Ciccu						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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