The Red Fairy Book, Jack Sells the Cow, sentence 7

Jack stopped to look at them, and the butcher told the boy that they were of great value, and persuaded the silly lad to sell the cow for these beans.

Who acts: Jack, butcher, beans · What happens: stop, look, tell, be, persuade, sell · To what, where: boy, silly lad, cow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack Sells the Cow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, butcher, beans), 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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 look	mark
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stopped	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 look	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 butcher	det
10	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	iobj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 value	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 value	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 value	cop
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 value	case
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 value	amod
19	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 persuaded	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 persuaded	cc
22	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 lad	det
24	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lad	amod
25	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 persuaded	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 sell	mark
27	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 persuaded	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cow	det
29	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sell	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 beans	case
31	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 beans	det
32	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sell	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	stop	past	Jack				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	look	to-infinitive	Jack not said here			at beans = bean	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	the butcher		the boy		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient
4	is	past	beans = bean			of great value	tree rules
5	persuade	past	Jack not said here	the silly lad			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Patient
6	sell	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	the cow		for this beans	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent cow=Theme for bean=Asset

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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