The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 49

Simon bought them both, paid as small a price as he could for them, and leading them home with him, he told Nina to prepare a good meal, as he was going to invite some friends to dinner.

Who acts: Simon · What happens: buy, pay, lead, tell, prepare, go · To what, where: goats, Nina, good meal, friends · 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 (Simon), 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	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 bought	nsubj
2	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bought	obj
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 bought	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 paid	punct
6	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bought	conj
7	as	as	ADP	_	10 price	case
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 price	amod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 price	det
10	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paid	obl
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 could	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 could	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 paid	advcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 could	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 told	cc
18	leading	lead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 told	advcl
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 leading	obj
20	home	home	ADV	_	18 leading	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 leading	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 leading	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	nsubj
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bought	conj
26	Nina	Nina	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 told	iobj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 prepare	mark
28	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 told	xcomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 meal	det
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 meal	amod
31	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 prepare	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 going	punct
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 going	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 going	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 going	aux
36	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 told	ccomp
37	to	to	PART	_	38 invite	mark
38	invite	invite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 going	xcomp
39	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	40 friends	det
40	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 invite	obj
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 dinner	case
42	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 invite	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	buy	past	Simon	goats = goat			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary both=Theme
2	pay	participle	Simon not said here			as a small price	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	lead	gerund	Simon not said here	goats = goat		with Simon; home property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	Simon		Nina		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent nina=Recipient clause=Topic
5	prepare not said to happen	to-infinitive	Simon not said here	a good meal			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient
6	go	past · progressive	Simon				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	invite	to-infinitive	Simon not said here		some friends	to dinner	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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 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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