The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 48

From that day Peter saved up every penny that his daughter Lucia gave him on the sly, and bribed the boys of his acquaintance to spy out a black woodpecker’s nest for him.

Who acts: Peter, daughter · What happens: save up, give, bribe, spy out, acquaint · To what, where: penny, Peter, sly, boys, nest

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, daughter), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saved	obl
4	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 saved	nsubj
5	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 saved	compound:prt
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 penny	det
8	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saved	obj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 gave	mark
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 daughter	nmod:poss
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	nsubj
12	Lucia	Lucia	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 daughter	appos
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saved	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	iobj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 sly	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sly	det
17	sly	sly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gave	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bribed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bribed	cc
20	bribed	bribe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saved	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 boys	det
22	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bribed	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 acquaintance	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 acquaintance	nmod:poss
25	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 boys	nmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 spy	mark
27	spy	spy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 bribed	advcl
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 spy	compound:prt
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 woodpecker	det
30	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 woodpecker	amod
31	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 nest	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 woodpecker	case
33	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 spy	obj
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 spy	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save up	past	Peter	every penny			day		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penny=Theme
2	give	past	Peter's daughter		Peter	the sly			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme on sly=Asset
3	bribe	past	Peter not said here	the boys of Peter's acquaintance					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
4	spy out	to-infinitive	Peter not said here	a black woodpecker's nest				for Peter	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nest=Stimulus
5	acquaint		Peter						nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=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: «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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