The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 53

‘It is a bargain,’ replied Stan, though at the moment he did not know how, supposing he DID come off the victor, he would ever be able to drive so large a flock home.

Who acts: herd, bargain, Stan · What happens: be, reply, not know, suppose, come off, drive · To what, where: bargain, victor, large flock · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (herd, bargain, Stan), 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 bargain	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bargain	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bargain	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bargain	det
5	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 replied	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bargain	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 bargain	punct
8	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 replied	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 know	mark
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 moment	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 moment	det
14	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 know	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 know	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 know	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 know	advmod
18	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 replied	parataxis
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 know	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 supposing	punct
21	supposing	suppose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 know	conj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 come	nsubj
23	DID	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 supposing	ccomp
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 come	compound:prt
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 victor	det
27	victor	victor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 come	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 able	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 able	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 able	aux
31	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 able	advmod
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 able	cop
33	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 replied	parataxis
34	to	to	PART	_	35 drive	mark
35	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 able	xcomp
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 large	advmod
37	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 flock	amod
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 flock	det
39	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 drive	obj
40	home	home	ADV	_	35 drive	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	herd	a bargain			tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	a bargain				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not know	past · do-support	Stan		moment		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	suppose	gerund	Stan not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	come off	past · do-support	Stan	the victor			tree rules
6	is	would	Stan		ever	able property	tree rules
7	drive	to-infinitive	Stan not said here	a large flock		home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme flock=Trajectory

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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