The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 50

But the brother would not take it until the other paid him three hundred dollars, and that he was obliged to do.

Who acts: brother, other · What happens: not take, pay, oblige, do · To what, where: pottage, Mischief

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 (brother, other), 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	_	6 take	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 take	advmod
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 paid	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 other	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 paid	nsubj
11	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 take	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 paid	obj
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 hundred	compound
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 dollars	nummod
15	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 paid	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 obliged	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 obliged	cc
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 obliged	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 obliged	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 obliged	aux:pass
21	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 take	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 do	mark
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 obliged	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not take	would	the brother	pottage		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	pay	past	the other		Mischief	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dollar=Asset
3	oblige	past · passive		Mischief		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
4	do	to-infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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