The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 68

The knaves, who thought they were doing a capital piece of business, paid down the fifty gold pieces at once, and left the house quite happily, leading the goat with them.

Who acts: goats · What happens: think, do, pay down, leave, lead · To what, where: knaves, capital piece, fifty gold pieces, house, goat · 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 (goats), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knaves	det
2	knaves	knave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thought	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 doing	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 doing	aux
8	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 thought	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 piece	det
10	capital	capital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 piece	amod
11	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doing	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 business	case
13	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 piece	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 paid	punct
15	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 doing	parataxis
16	down	down	ADP	_	20 pieces	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pieces	det
18	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 pieces	nummod
19	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pieces	compound
20	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 paid	obl
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 once	case
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 paid	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 left	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 left	cc
25	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 house	det
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 left	obj
28	quite	quite	ADV	_	29 happily	advmod
29	happily	happily	ADV	_	25 left	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 leading	punct
31	leading	lead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 left	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 goat	det
33	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 leading	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 leading	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past		the knaves		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	do	past · progressive	goats = goat	a capital piece of business		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Eventuality
3	pay down	participle		the fifty gold pieces		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Asset
4	leave	past		the house	happily property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
5	lead	gerund		the goat	with goats = goat	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=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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