The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 35

And, indeed, the sooner the better, since they had to pay for all the damage they had done.

Who acts: sheep · What happens: have, pay, do · To what, where: damage

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheep), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 better	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 better	punct
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	8 better	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 indeed	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sooner	det
6	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 better	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 better	det
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
10	since	since	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 better	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 pay	mark
14	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	xcomp
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 damage	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 damage	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 damage	det
18	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pay	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 done	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 done	aux
21	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 damage	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	sheep			tree rules
2	pay	to-infinitive	sheep not said here		for all damage	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for damage=Theme
3	do	past · perfect	sheep	all damage not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Eventuality

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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