The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 44

As soon as the old man got home, he told his housekeeper that he had bought a beast under the belief that it was a mule, but that it had turned out to be a donkey--at least, so he had been assured by several people he had met on the road, and that in disgust he had at last given it away.

Who acts: old man, man, beast, it, several people · What happens: get, tell, buy, be, turn out, assure · To what, where: housekeeper, beast, belief, mule, least, donkey · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, man, beast, it), 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	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 told	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 got	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	advcl
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 got	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 housekeeper	nmod:poss
13	housekeeper	housekeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	obj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 bought	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bought	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bought	aux
17	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 told	ccomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 beast	det
19	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bought	obj
20	under	under	ADP	_	22 belief	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 belief	det
22	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bought	obl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 mule	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 mule	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 mule	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 mule	det
27	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 belief	acl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 turned	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 turned	cc
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 turned	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 turned	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 turned	aux
33	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 told	parataxis
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 turned	compound:prt
35	to	to	PART	_	38 donkey	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 donkey	cop
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 donkey	det
38	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 turned	advcl
39	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 least	punct
40	at	at	ADP	_	41 least	case
41	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 turned	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 assured	punct
43	so	so	ADV	_	47 assured	advmod
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 assured	nsubj
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 assured	aux
46	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 assured	aux:pass
47	assured	assure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 turned	conj
48	by	by	ADP	_	50 people	case
49	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 people	amod
50	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 assured	obl
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 met	nsubj
52	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 met	aux
53	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 people	acl:relcl
54	on	on	ADP	_	56 road	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 road	det
56	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 met	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 had	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 had	cc
59	that	that	SCONJ	_	63 had	mark
60	in	in	ADP	_	61 disgust	case
61	disgust	disgust	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 had	obl
62	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 had	nsubj
63	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	ccomp
64	at	at	ADP	_	65 last	case
65	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 had	obj
66	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	65 last	acl
67	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 given	obj
68	away	away	ADV	_	66 given	advmod
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	the old man			home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	past	man	man's housekeeper		soon property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent housekeeper=Recipient clause=Topic
3	buy	past · perfect	man	a beast	the belief		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme
4	is a	past	beast	a mule			tree rules
5	turn out	past · perfect	it		least		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at least=Location
6	is a	to-infinitive		a donkey			tree rules
7	assure	past · perfect · passive	several people	man			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
8	meet	past · perfect	man	several people not said here	the road		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent
9	have	past	man	last	disgust		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent last=Patient
10	give away	participle		beast		away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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