The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 31

‘See! here is the money;’ and, so saying, he handed him the hundred florins, which the peasant pocketed, and Martin took possession of the cat, which was called Waska.

Who acts: you, Martin, peasant · What happens: see, be, say, hand, pocket, take · To what, where: money, hundred florins, goose, possession, cat · 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, peasant), 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 See	punct
2	See	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 See	advmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 money	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 money	det
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 See	parataxis
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saying	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saying	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 saying	advmod
13	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 See	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 handed	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 handed	nsubj
16	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 See	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 handed	obj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 florins	det
19	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 florins	nummod
20	florins	florin	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 handed	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pocketed	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 pocketed	obj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 peasant	det
24	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pocketed	nsubj
25	pocketed	pocket	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 florins	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 took	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 took	cc
28	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 took	nsubj
29	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 handed	conj
30	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 took	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 cat	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cat	det
33	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 possession	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 called	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 called	nsubj:pass
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 called	aux:pass
37	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 cat	acl:relcl
38	Waska	Waska	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 called	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	see	imperative	you not said here			here	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present		the money			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund	you not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	hand	past	Martin	the hundred florins	goose		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination florin=Theme
5	pocket	past	the peasant	the hundred florins			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent which=Theme
6	take	past	Martin	possession of the cat			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme
7	call	past · passive		the cat			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
8	possess			the cat			nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient

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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