The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 52

‘One of every three rams, one of every three sheep, one of every three lambs,’ answered the herd.

What happens: answer · To what, where: One

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 One	punct
2	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 answered	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 rams	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 rams	det
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 rams	nummod
6	rams	ram	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 One	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 One	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 sheep	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 sheep	det
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 sheep	nummod
12	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 one	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 One	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 lambs	case
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 lambs	det
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 lambs	nummod
18	lambs	lamb	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 answered	punct
21	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 herd	det
23	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 answered	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past		One of every three rams					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent herd=Eventuality

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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