The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 37
But instead of keeping it for himself, the master, who was an honourable man, gave it all up to the shepherd, saying: “Take it, it is yours.
Who acts: master, honourable man, door · What happens: keep, be, give up, say, take · To what, where: door, honourable man, shepherd, yours · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, honourable man, door), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 keeping | cc |
| 2 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 4 keeping | mark |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 2 instead | fixed |
| 4 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 keeping | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 himself | case |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 keeping | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 master | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 master | det |
| 10 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeping | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 man | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 man | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 man | cop |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | honourable | honourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 master | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 man | acl:relcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | obj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 it | det |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 gave | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 shepherd | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 shepherd | det |
| 24 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 saying | punct |
| 26 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 gave | advcl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 Take | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 Take | punct |
| 29 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 saying | ccomp |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 Take | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 yours | punct |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 yours | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 yours | cop |
| 34 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 Take | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keeping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | gerund | door | for shepherd; the master obl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the master | a honourable man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give up | past | a honourable man not said here | door | the shepherd | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to shepherd=Recipient | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | a honourable man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | take in a quote | infinitive | door | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | door | yours | tree rules |
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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