The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 22

And they told him that he might have it for six shillings, if he cared to give so much.

Who acts: eyes, man · What happens: tell, have, care, give · To what, where: man, creature · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 told	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 have	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 have	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 shillings	case
11	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 shillings	nummod
12	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cared	punct
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 cared	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cared	nsubj
16	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 give	mark
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 cared	xcomp
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADV	_	18 give	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	eyes = eye		man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	might	man	creature		for six shillings	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	care a condition, not said to happen	past	man				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	give	to-infinitive	man not said here				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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