The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 23

She then offered to lay down something for him, but the merchant told his daughter that would not do, it must be something of his own.

Who acts: friend, merchant · What happens: offer, lay down, tell, not do, be · To what, where: something, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, merchant), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 offered	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 offered	advmod
3	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 lay	mark
5	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 offered	advcl
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 lay	compound:prt
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 lay	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lay	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 merchant	det
13	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	nsubj
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 offered	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 daughter	nmod:poss
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	iobj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 do	obj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 do	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 do	advmod
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 daughter	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 something	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 something	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 something	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 something	cop
25	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 told	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 own	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 own	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 something	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past	friend			then		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	lay down	to-infinitive	friend not said here	something			for Whittington	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent something=Result for he=Beneficiary
3	tell speech: assert	past	the merchant		Whittington's daughter			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient
4	not do	would		Whittington's daughter				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
5	is a	must	merchant	something			of Whittington's own	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 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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