The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 57

At first the man would not hear of parting with it, but the skipper begged and prayed, and at last the man sold it to him, and got many, many thousand dollars for it.

Who acts: man, skipper · What happens: not hear, beg, pray, sell, get · To what, where: skipper, mill, last, many many thousand dollars

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 (man, skipper), 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	7 hear	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hear	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hear	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 hear	advmod
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 parting	case
9	parting	parting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hear	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 parting	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 begged	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 begged	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 skipper	det
15	skipper	skipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 begged	nsubj
16	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hear	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 prayed	cc
18	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 begged	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sold	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sold	cc
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 last	case
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sold	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 last	nsubj
25	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 begged	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sold	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sold	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 got	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 got	cc
31	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sold	conj
32	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 dollars	amod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 dollars	punct
34	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 dollars	amod
35	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 dollars	nummod
36	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 got	obj
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 got	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not hear	would	the man				of parting with skipper	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of parting=Stimulus
2	beg speech: request	past	the skipper					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
3	pray	past	the skipper not said here					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	sell	past	the skipper not said here	skipper	mill	last		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at last=Asset to he=Recipient
5	get	past	the skipper not said here	many many thousand dollars			for skipper	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent dollar=Theme for it=Source

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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