Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 77

"You must sell your conjuror to me," said the farmer; "ask as much as you like, I will pay it; indeed I would give you directly a whole bushel of gold."

Who acts: You, farmer · What happens: sell, say, ask, like, pay, give · To what, where: conjuror, farmer, much, lid, whole bushel, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, farmer), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sell	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 sell	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sell	aux
4	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 conjuror	nmod:poss
6	conjuror	conjuror	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sell	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sell	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sell	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sell	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 farmer	det
13	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 ask	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 ask	punct
16	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ask	obj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 like	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 like	nsubj
21	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 pay	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 like	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 pay	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 pay	aux
25	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 much	parataxis
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pay	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 give	punct
28	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	31 give	advmod
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 give	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 give	aux
31	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 ask	conj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 give	iobj
33	directly	directly	ADV	_	36 bushel	advmod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 bushel	det
35	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 bushel	amod
36	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 give	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 gold	case
38	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bushel	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 ask	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sell in a quote	must	You	your conjuror	the farmer = farmer		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent conjuror=Theme to i=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the farmer				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ask speech: ask in a quote	infinitive		much			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent much=Recipient
4	like in a quote	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	pay in a quote	future	the farmer = farmer	lid			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset
6	give in a quote	would	the farmer = farmer	a whole bushel of gold	you	indeed property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bushel=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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