The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 113

The master then scolded him soundly about the stolen robe, but in vain Labakan told him he had come to pay for it and offered three times its price.

Who acts: master · What happens: scold, steal, tell, come, pay, offer · To what, where: midst, vain Labakan, price · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 master	det
2	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scolded	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 scolded	advmod
4	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scolded	obj
6	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	4 scolded	advmod
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 robe	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 robe	det
9	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 robe	amod
10	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scolded	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 Labakan	case
14	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Labakan	amod
15	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 told	obl
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scolded	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 come	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 told	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 pay	mark
22	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 come	xcomp
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pay	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 offered	cc
26	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 told	conj
27	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 times	nummod
28	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 offered	obl:unmarked
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 price	nmod:poss
30	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 offered	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 scolded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scold	past	the master	midst			then	about the stolen robe; soundly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	steal	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past			midst	vain Labakan			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	come	past · perfect	master						tree rules
5	pay	to-infinitive	master not said here					for robe	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme
6	offer	past		robe's price			time		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent 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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