More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 50
"Fifty pounds was what I bargained for," said the piper shortly; "and if I were you I'd pay it quickly.
Who acts: Fifty pounds, piper, you · What happens: be, bargain, say, pay · To what, where: you, Piper · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 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 (Fifty pounds, piper, you), 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 | _ | 5 what | punct |
| 2 | Fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pounds | nummod |
| 3 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 what | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | cop |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 said | nsubj:outer |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 bargained | nsubj |
| 7 | bargained | bargain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 bargained | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 piper | det |
| 13 | piper | piper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 pay | cc |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 you | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 you | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 you | cop |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 pay | nsubj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 pay | nsubj |
| 23 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 pay | aux |
| 24 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 pay | obj |
| 26 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 24 pay | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | Fifty pounds | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bargain in a quote | past | the piper = piper | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the piper | shortly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | the piper = piper | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pay in a quote | would | you | Piper | quickly property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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