The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 10

As he spoke, some men who were standing by began to laugh, saying to the man with the cage: ‘You had better take care how you bargain with him, for he has nothing at all except what he picks up from a dust-heap, and if he can’t feed himself, will he be able to feed a gazelle?’

Who acts: man, men, You · What happens: speak, stand, begin, laugh, say, have · To what, where: man, better take care, nothing, all, dust heap, gazelle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, men, You), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 spoke	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 standing	punct
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 men	det
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 standing	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 standing	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 standing	aux
9	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 spoke	advcl
10	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 began	mark
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 standing	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 laugh	mark
13	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saying	punct
15	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 laugh	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 man	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saying	obl
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 cage	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cage	det
21	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 man	nmod
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
24	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spoke	conj
26	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 care	amod
27	take	take	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 care	compound
28	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
29	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 bargain	advmod
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 bargain	nsubj
31	bargain	bargain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 had	advcl
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bargain	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 has	punct
35	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 has	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 has	nsubj
37	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 bargain	conj
38	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	37 has	obj
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 all	case
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 nothing	nmod
41	except	except	ADP	_	42 what	case
42	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 nothing	nmod
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 picks	nsubj
44	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 what	acl:relcl
45	up	up	ADP	_	44 picks	compound:prt
46	from	from	ADP	_	50 heap	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 heap	det
48	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 heap	compound
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 dust	punct
50	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 picks	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 able	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 able	cc
53	if	if	SCONJ	_	57 feed	mark
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 feed	nsubj
55	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 feed	aux
56	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 feed	advmod
57	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	63 able	advcl
58	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	57 feed	obj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 feed	punct
60	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 able	aux
61	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 able	nsubj
62	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	63 able	cop
63	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spoke	conj
64	to	to	PART	_	65 feed	mark
65	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	63 able	xcomp
66	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	67 gazelle	det
67	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 feed	obj
68	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct
69	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	man					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stand	past · progressive	some men					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	begin	past	some men not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	laugh	to-infinitive	some men not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	gerund	some men not said here		the man with the cage			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient
6	have	past	You	better take care				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Patient
7	bargain	present	you				with man	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent
8	have	present	man	nothing		all		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
9	pick up	present	man			a dust heap		vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.source how S»: agent=Agent from heap=Source
10	not feed a condition, not said to happen	can	man	man				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient
11	is	future	man				able property	tree rules
12	feed	to-infinitive	man not said here		a gazelle			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gazelle=Recipient

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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