The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 5

So the old woman counted out a hundred of her florins, and giving them to Martin, told him to go into the town and lay in a store of meal for a year.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: count out, give, tell, go, lay · To what, where: florins, Martin, town, store · 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 (old woman), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 counted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 counted	nsubj
5	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 counted	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hundred	det
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 counted	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 florins	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 florins	nmod:poss
11	florins	florin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hundred	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 told	cc
14	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 told	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 giving	iobj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Martin	case
17	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 giving	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 giving	punct
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 counted	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 told	iobj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 go	mark
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 told	xcomp
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 town	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 town	det
25	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lay	cc
27	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 go	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 store	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 store	det
30	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 meal	case
32	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 store	nmod
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 year	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 year	det
35	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 counted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count out	participle	the old woman					vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	give	gerund		florins = florin			to Martin	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to martin=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	past	the old woman not said here	Martin				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here		the town			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location
5	lay	infinitive	the old woman not said here		a store of meal	year		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in store=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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