The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 38

The maiden answered, ‘We will leave him that; he has already lost his wealth!’

Who acts: maiden, We, Thenceforward · What happens: answer, leave, lose · To what, where: Thenceforward, wealth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, We, Thenceforward), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maiden	det
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 leave	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 leave	punct
6	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 leave	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 leave	aux
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	ccomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 leave	obj
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 leave	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 lost	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lost	nsubj
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 lost	aux
14	already	already	ADV	_	15 lost	advmod
15	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 answered	ccomp
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wealth	nmod:poss
17	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lost	obj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 lost	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the maiden		tree rules
2	leave	future	We	Thenceforward	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme that=Attribute
3	lose	present · perfect	Thenceforward	Thenceforward's wealth	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Eventuality

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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