The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 11

When the latter saw the golden lamb, he asked the herd: ‘Will you sell me this lamb?’

Who acts: latter, lamb, you · What happens: see, ask, sell · To what, where: golden lamb, herd, lamb, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (latter, lamb, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 latter	det
3	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lamb	det
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lamb	amod
7	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	nsubj
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 herd	det
12	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	obj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 sell	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 sell	punct
15	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 sell	aux
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 sell	nsubj
17	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asked	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 sell	iobj
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 lamb	det
20	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sell	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 sell	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 sell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	see	past	the latter	the golden lamb		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lamb=Stimulus
2	ask speech: ask	past	lamb	the herd		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent herd=Recipient clause=Topic
3	sell	future	you	this lamb	me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient lamb=Theme

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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