The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 29

Then he said to the peasant, ‘You are a nice sort of person to seize animals and to talk of killing them!

Who acts: peasant, You · What happens: say, be, seize, talk, kill · To what, where: peasant, nice sort, animals · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, You), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 peasant	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 peasant	det
6	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sort	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 sort	punct
9	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 sort	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sort	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sort	det
12	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sort	amod
13	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 peasant	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 person	case
15	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sort	nmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 seize	mark
17	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
18	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 seize	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 talk	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 talk	mark
21	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 seize	conj
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 killing	mark
23	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 talk	advcl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 killing	obj
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	peasant		the peasant	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to peasant=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is a	present	You	a nice sort			of person	tree rules
3	seize	to-infinitive		animals				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
4	talk	to-infinitive						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	kill	gerund		animals = animal				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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