The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 15

‘Well, so be it, if you will not take less;’ and, taking the money out of his pocket, he handed it over in exchange for the dog, whose name was Schurka.

Who acts: you, Martin, name, Schurka · What happens: be, not take, take, hand over, name · To what, where: penny, less, money, pocket, exchange, Schurka

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, name, Schurka), 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	_	5 be	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 be	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 be	advmod
5	be	be	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 be	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 take	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 take	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 take	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 take	advmod
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 be	parataxis
13	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 take	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 less	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 less	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 taking	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 taking	punct
18	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 less	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 money	det
20	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taking	obj
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 pocket	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 pocket	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 pocket	nmod:poss
24	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taking	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 handed	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 handed	nsubj
27	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 take	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 handed	obj
29	over	over	ADP	_	27 handed	compound:prt
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 exchange	case
31	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 handed	obl
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 dog	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 dog	det
34	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 handed	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Schurka	punct
36	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	37 name	nmod:poss
37	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 Schurka	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 Schurka	cop
39	Schurka	Schurka	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 dog	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 be	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	imperative	you not said here	penny			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	not take a condition, not said to happen	future	you	less			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Theme
3	take	gerund	you not said here	the money	Martin's pocket		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent money=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location
4	hand over	past	Martin	penny	exchange	for the dog and Schurka	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	is a	past	Schurka's name	Schurka			tree rules
6	name		Schurka				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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