The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 8

‘We must all three station ourselves at different intervals along the old man’s homeward way, and must each in his turn declare that the mule he has bought is a donkey.

Who acts: mule · What happens: declare, buy, be · To what, where: turn, mule, donkey

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 (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 station	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 station	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 station	aux
4	all	all	ADV	_	6 station	advmod
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 station	nummod
6	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 station	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 intervals	case
9	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 intervals	amod
10	intervals	interval	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 station	nmod
11	along	along	ADP	_	17 way	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 way	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 man	case
16	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 way	compound
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 intervals	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 declare	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 declare	cc
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 declare	aux
21	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	25 declare	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 turn	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 turn	nmod:poss
24	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 declare	obl
25	declare	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 station	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 donkey	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 mule	det
28	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 donkey	nsubj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bought	nsubj
30	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 bought	aux
31	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 mule	acl:relcl
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 donkey	cop
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 donkey	det
34	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 declare	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 station	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	declare speech: other	must			man's turn	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	buy	present · perfect	mule	the mule not said here		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mule=Theme
3	is a	present	the mule	a donkey		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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