The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 30

‘Surely for a hundred florins you’ll sell it?’ said Martin.

Who acts: hundred florins, Martin · What happens: sell, say · To what, where: answer · 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 (hundred florins, 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	_	9 sell	punct
2	Surely	surely	ADV	_	6 florins	advmod
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 florins	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hundred	det
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 florins	nummod
6	florins	florin	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sell	nsubj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 sell	nsubj
8	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 sell	aux
9	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sell	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 sell	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 sell	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	future	hundred florins	answer					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Martin						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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