The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 13

‘If you choose to buy him,’ answered the butchers derisively; ‘but for such a treasure we won’t take a penny less than a hundred florins.’

Who acts: you, we · What happens: choose, buy, answer, not take · To what, where: Martin, butchers, penny

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, we), 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	_	10 answered	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 choose	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 choose	nsubj
4	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 buy	mark
6	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 choose	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 buy	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 choose	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 choose	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 butchers	det
12	butchers	butcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 answered	obj
13	derisively	derisively	ADV	_	10 answered	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 take	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 take	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 take	cc
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 treasure	case
18	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	20 treasure	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 treasure	det
20	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	obl
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 take	nsubj
22	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 take	aux
23	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 take	advmod
24	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 answered	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 penny	det
26	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	obj
27	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	30 hundred	advmod
28	than	than	ADP	_	27 less	fixed
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 hundred	det
30	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 florins	nummod
31	florins	florin	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 take	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 take	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	choose a condition, not said to happen	present	you				tree rules
2	buy	to-infinitive	you not said here		Martin		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past		the butchers		derisively property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent butcher=Eventuality
4	not take	future	we	a penny		for such treasure	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument penny=Theme florin=Destination

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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