The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 31
And he not only gave me back my bee, but a sack of millet seed into the bargain, because he had made use of my bee.
Who acts: man · What happens: not give back, make, use · To what, where: bee, me, bargain, use
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gave | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 gave | advmod |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 gave | advmod |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 gave | advmod |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bee | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sack | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 sack | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sack | det |
| 13 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 seed | case |
| 15 | millet | millet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seed | compound |
| 16 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sack | nmod |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 bargain | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bargain | det |
| 19 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 made | punct |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 24 made | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 made | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 made | aux |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 gave | conj |
| 25 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 made | xcomp |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 bee | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 bee | nmod:poss |
| 28 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 use | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give back | past | man | my bee | me | the bargain | a sack of millet seed obl | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient bee=Theme | |
| 2 | make | past · perfect | man | use of my bee | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | use | my bee | nom use «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 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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