More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 24
With these jewels she bargained for permission to be a second night in the young knight's chamber; but the old wife gave him another sleeping drink, and again he slept till morning.
Who acts: hill, old wife, knight · What happens: bargain, be, give, sleep · To what, where: second night, chamber, sleeping drink, knight
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 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 (hill, old wife, knight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg14241:271): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 jewels | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 jewels | det |
| 3 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bargained | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bargained | nsubj |
| 5 | bargained | bargain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 permission | case |
| 7 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bargained | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 night | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 night | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 night | det |
| 11 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 night | amod |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 permission | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 chamber | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 knight | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 knight | amod |
| 16 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 knight | case |
| 18 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 night | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 gave | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 gave | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wife | det |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wife | amod |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | nsubj |
| 24 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bargained | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gave | iobj |
| 26 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 drink | det |
| 27 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 drink | compound |
| 28 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 slept | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 slept | cc |
| 31 | again | again | ADV | _ | 33 slept | advmod |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 slept | nsubj |
| 33 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bargained | conj |
| 34 | till | till | ADP | _ | 35 morning | case |
| 35 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 slept | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bargained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bargain | past | hill | with this jewels; for permission | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with jewel=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | hill not said here | a second night | the young knight's chamber | tree rules | |||
| 3 | give | past | the old wife | another sleeping drink | knight | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient drink=Theme | |||
| 4 | sleep | past | knight | again; morning | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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