The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 15

Indeed, he wanted directly to buy it, and told the youth he would give any price he liked.

Who acts: king · What happens: want, buy, tell, give, like · To what, where: creature, youth, price · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 wanted	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	directly	directly	ADV	_	4 wanted	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 buy	mark
7	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 buy	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wanted	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 youth	det
13	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 give	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 give	aux
16	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 told	ccomp
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 price	det
18	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 give	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 liked	nsubj
20	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 price	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	king		directly, indeed property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	buy not said to happen	to-infinitive	king not said here	creature		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	king not said here	the youth		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient clause=Topic
4	give	would	king	any price		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme
5	like	past	king	any price not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot price=Theme

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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