The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 12

But the herd answered: ‘No, oh king; I will not sell it; but if you find pleasure therein, I will be willing to oblige you, and I will lend it to you, free of charge, for three days, after that you must give it back to me.’

Who acts: herd, I, you · What happens: answer, not sell, find, be, oblige, lend · To what, where: king, herd, pleasure, you, me

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 (herd, I, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 herd	det
3	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 king	punct
7	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	10 king	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 No	punct
9	oh	oh	INTJ	_	10 king	discourse
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 sell	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 sell	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 sell	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 sell	advmod
15	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answered	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sell	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 willing	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 willing	cc
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 find	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 find	nsubj
21	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 willing	advcl
22	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 find	obj
23	therein	therein	ADV	_	21 find	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 find	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 willing	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 willing	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 willing	cop
28	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 answered	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 oblige	mark
30	oblige	oblige	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 willing	xcomp
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 oblige	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 lend	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 lend	cc
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 lend	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 lend	aux
36	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 willing	parataxis
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 lend	obj
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 you	case
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 lend	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 free	punct
41	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 lend	conj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 charge	case
43	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 free	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 days	punct
45	for	for	ADP	_	47 days	case
46	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 days	nummod
47	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 lend	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 give	punct
49	after	after	SCONJ	_	53 give	mark
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 give	mark
51	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	53 give	nsubj
52	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 give	aux
53	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 lend	conj
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 give	obj
55	back	back	ADV	_	53 give	advmod
56	to	to	ADP	_	57 me	case
57	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 give	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 willing	punct
59	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 willing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the herd	king				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not sell	future	I	herd				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	find a condition, not said to happen	present	you	pleasure			therein property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Topic
4	is	future	I				willing property	tree rules
5	oblige	to-infinitive	I not said here	you				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
6	lend	future	I	herd	you	day		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Recipient
7	give back	must	you	herd	me			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=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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