The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 70

Ciccu understood what they were thinking, and, drawing forty gold pieces from his pocket, he held out twenty to each, saying, ‘Take these and turn them to good account.

Who acts: Ciccu, brothers · What happens: understand, think, draw, hold out, say, take · To what, where: forty gold pieces, pocket, twenty, these, brothers, good account · 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 (Ciccu, brothers), 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	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 understood	nsubj
2	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 thinking	obj
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thinking	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thinking	aux
6	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 understood	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 held	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 held	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 drawing	punct
10	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 held	advcl
11	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 pieces	nummod
12	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pieces	compound
13	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 drawing	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 pocket	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 pocket	nmod:poss
16	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drawing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 drawing	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 held	nsubj
19	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 understood	conj
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 held	compound:prt
21	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 held	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 each	case
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 twenty	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 saying	punct
25	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 held	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Take	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 Take	punct
28	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 saying	ccomp
29	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 Take	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 turn	cc
31	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 Take	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 turn	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 account	case
34	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 account	amod
35	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 turn	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	understand	past	Ciccu				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	past · progressive	brothers = brother				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3	draw	gerund	Ciccu not said here	forty gold pieces	Ciccu's pocket		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent piece=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location
4	hold out	past	Ciccu	twenty		to each	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twenty=Theme
5	say speech: assert	gerund	Ciccu not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	take	infinitive		these			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme
7	turn	infinitive		brothers = brother	good account		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme to account=Trajectory

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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