Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 40

"What will you give me, in gold or fee," said Robin, "if I will help you win your bride again in spite of the rich old man to whom she has been promised?"

Who acts: you, Robin · What happens: give, say, help, win, promise, spite · To what, where: gold, Robin, you, bride, spite, name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Story of Robin Hood.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Robin), 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 give	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 give	obj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 give	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gold	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 gold	case
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 fee	cc
11	fee	fee	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gold	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Robin	Robin	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 help	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 help	punct
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 help	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 help	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 help	aux
21	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 help	obj
23	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 help	xcomp
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 bride	nmod:poss
25	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 win	obj
26	again	again	ADV	_	23 win	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 spite	case
28	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 win	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 man	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 man	det
31	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 man	amod
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 man	amod
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spite	nmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 whom	case
35	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 man	nmod
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 promised	nsubj
37	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 promised	aux
38	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 promised	aux:pass
39	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 whom	acl:relcl
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 help	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	give in a quote	future	you	gold or fee	Robin			tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	Robin					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	help a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	Robin	you				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	win in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	your bride		spite of the rich old man to spite of the rich old man to spite	again	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Eventuality
5	promise speech: promise in a quote	present · perfect · passive		name				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
6	spite in a quote			the rich old man to spite of the rich old man to spite of the rich old man				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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