The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 58

In payment the old man gave him a nut, and offered to keep him for another year; but Peter was home-sick; and, besides, he would rather have been paid ever so small a piece of money than a nut; for, thought he, nuts grow on every tree, and I can gather as many as I like.

Who acts: old man, Peter, nuts, I · What happens: give, offer, keep, be, pay, think · To what, where: nut, Peter, payment, tree, many

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, Peter, nuts, I), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 payment	case
2	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gave	iobj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 nut	det
9	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 offered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 offered	cc
12	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 gave	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 keep	mark
14	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 offered	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 keep	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 year	case
17	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 year	det
18	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 keep	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 sick	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 sick	cc
21	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 sick	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sick	cop
23	home	home	ADV	_	25 sick	advmod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 home	punct
25	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gave	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 paid	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 paid	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 and	punct
29	besides	besides	INTJ	_	36 paid	discourse
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 besides	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 paid	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 paid	aux
33	rather	rather	ADV	_	36 paid	advmod
34	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 paid	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 paid	aux:pass
36	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 gave	conj
37	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	39 small	advmod
38	so	so	ADV	_	39 small	advmod
39	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 paid	parataxis
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 piece	det
41	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 small	nsubj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 money	case
43	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 piece	nmod
44	than	than	ADP	_	46 nut	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 nut	det
46	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 small	obl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 thought	punct
48	for	for	SCONJ	_	50 thought	mark
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 thought	punct
50	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 gave	conj
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 thought	nsubj:pass
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 grow	punct
53	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 grow	nsubj
54	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 thought	conj
55	on	on	ADP	_	57 tree	case
56	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	57 tree	det
57	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 grow	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 gather	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 gather	cc
60	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	62 gather	nsubj
61	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 gather	aux
62	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 thought	conj
63	as	as	ADV	_	64 many	advmod
64	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 gather	obj
65	as	as	SCONJ	_	67 like	mark
66	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	67 like	nsubj
67	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 many	advcl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the old man	a nut	Peter	payment			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient nut=Theme
2	offer	participle	the old man not said here						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	keep	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	Peter			year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	is	past	Peter					home, sick property	tree rules
5	pay	would · perfect · passive		Peter					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
6	think speech: other	participle · passive		Peter					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	grow	present	nuts			every tree			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location
8	gather	can	I	many					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme
9	like	present	I						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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