The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 66

At last, towards the end of the meal, having sought in vain for some cunning dodge to get the goat away from Mr. Simon, one of them said to him, ‘My worthy host, you must sell your goat to us.’

Who acts: one, worthy host · What happens: seek, get, say, sell · To what, where: last, goat, Simon, us · 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 (one, worthy host), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sought	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 end	punct
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 end	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 end	det
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 last	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 meal	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 meal	det
9	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 end	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
11	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sought	aux
12	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 vain	case
14	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sought	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 dodge	case
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 dodge	det
17	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dodge	amod
18	dodge	dodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sought	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 get	mark
20	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sought	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 goat	det
22	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 get	obj
23	away	away	ADV	_	20 get	advmod
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 Simon	case
25	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Simon	nmod:desc
26	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 away	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 said	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 one	nmod
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sought	parataxis
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 said	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 sell	punct
35	‘	'	PUNCT	_	42 sell	punct
36	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 host	nmod:poss
37	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 host	amod
38	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sell	nsubj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 host	punct
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 sell	nsubj
41	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 sell	aux
42	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 said	conj
43	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 goat	nmod:poss
44	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sell	obj
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 us	case
46	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 sell	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sought	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seek	gerund · perfect				last	in vain; for some cunning dodge	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location for dodge=Theme
2	get	to-infinitive		the goat			away property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goat=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	one of goats		Simon			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	sell	must	My worthy host	your goat	us			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent goat=Theme to we=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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