The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 6

As soon as they saw that Simon had bought a mule, one of them said to his two boon companions, ‘My friends, this mule must be ours before we are many hours older.’

Who acts: rascals, Simon, one, mule, we · What happens: see, buy, say, be · To what, where: mule, two boon companions, ours · 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 (rascals, Simon, one, mule), 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	5 saw	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 saw	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 bought	mark
7	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 bought	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bought	aux
9	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 saw	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 mule	det
11	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bought	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 said	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 one	nmod
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	21 companions	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 companions	nmod:poss
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 companions	nummod
20	boon	boon	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 companions	compound
21	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 said	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 friends	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 friends	punct
24	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 friends	nmod:poss
25	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 companions	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ours	punct
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 mule	det
28	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ours	nsubj
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 ours	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 ours	cop
31	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 companions	conj
32	before	before	SCONJ	_	37 older	mark
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 older	nsubj
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 older	cop
35	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 hours	amod
36	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 older	obl:unmarked
37	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 ours	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	rascals = rascal				soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	buy	past · perfect	Simon	a mule				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mule=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	one of rascals		Simon's two boon companions and My friends			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to companion=Recipient
4	is a	must	this mule	ours				tree rules
5	is	present	we			hour	old property	tree rules

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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