The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 12

‘Leave off beating him,’ said Martin, ‘and sell him to me instead.’

Who acts: you, Martin · What happens: leave off, beat, say, sell · To what, where: Martin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Martin), 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	_	2 Leave	punct
2	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 Leave	compound:prt
4	beating	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Leave	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beating	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Leave	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Leave	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Leave	parataxis
9	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Leave	punct
11	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	2 Leave	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sell	cc
13	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Leave	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sell	iobj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 sell	obl
17	instead	instead	ADV	_	13 sell	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Leave	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Leave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	leave off	imperative	you not said here				tree rules
2	beat	gerund	you not said here	Martin			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Martin				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	sell	infinitive	you not said here		Martin	to me; instead property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to i=Recipient

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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