The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 121

As I told you, my going to Court has been as much as our lives are worth, and now we will both be tarred and feathered, and burnt in the public market-place.

Who acts: I, my, much · What happens: tell, go, be, tar, burnt · To what, where: you, Court, we, public market place · 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 (I, my, much), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 told	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 worth	advcl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 going	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 going	nsubj
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 much	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Court	case
9	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 going	obl
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 much	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 much	cop
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 worth	nsubj
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 lives	case
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 lives	nmod:poss
16	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 much	obl
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 worth	cop
18	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tarred	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 tarred	cc
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 tarred	advmod
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 tarred	nsubj:pass
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 tarred	aux
24	both	both	ADV	_	26 tarred	advmod
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 tarred	aux:pass
26	tarred	tar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 worth	csubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 feathered	cc
28	feathered	feathered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 tarred	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 burnt	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 burnt	cc
31	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 worth	parataxis
32	in	in	ADP	_	37 place	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 place	det
34	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 place	amod
35	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 place	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 market	punct
37	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 burnt	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 worth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	I		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	go	gerund	my			Court			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_Location
3	is	present · perfect						as our lives; much property	tree rules
4	is	present	much					worth property	tree rules
5	tar	future · passive		we			now	both property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
6	burnt	participle				the public market place			tree rules

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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