The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 22

At first they would not hear of this, and haggled and bargained with the man, but he stuck to what he had said, and the people were forced to give him the hand-mill.

Who acts: people, Man · What happens: not hear, haggle, bargain, stick, say, force · To what, where: people, hand mill, Man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Why the Sea Is Salt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 hear	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hear	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hear	advmod
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 this	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 hear	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 haggled	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 haggled	cc
11	haggled	haggle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 hear	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bargained	cc
13	bargained	bargain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 haggled	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 man	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bargained	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stuck	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 stuck	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stuck	nsubj
20	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 haggled	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 what	case
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 stuck	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 said	aux
25	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 what	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 forced	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 forced	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 people	det
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 forced	nsubj:pass
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 forced	aux:pass
31	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 stuck	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 give	mark
33	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 forced	xcomp
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 give	iobj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 mill	det
36	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 mill	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 hand	punct
38	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 give	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not hear	would	people			of this	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of this=Stimulus
2	haggle	participle	people not said here				vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bargain	participle	people not said here			with the man	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with man=Co-Agent
4	stick	past	Man				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to what=Co-Patient
5	say speech: assert	past · perfect	Man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	force	past · passive		the people			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
7	give	to-infinitive	the people not said here	the hand mill	Man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient mill=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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