The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 104

‘If anyone should come who wants to buy me,’ said he, ‘you are to tell him that you want a hundred dollars for me; but you must not forget to take off the halter, for if you do I shall never be able to get away from Farmer Weatherbeard, for he is the man who will come and bargain for me.’

Who acts: anyone, Farmer, you, man · What happens: come, want, buy, say, be, tell · To what, where: me, Farmer, hundred dollars, halter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anyone, Farmer, you, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 come	mark
3	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 come	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 wants	nsubj
7	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 buy	mark
9	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wants	xcomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 buy	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 are	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 are	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 are	nsubj
18	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 tell	mark
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 are	xcomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tell	iobj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 want	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 want	nsubj
24	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 tell	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hundred	det
26	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 dollars	nummod
27	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 want	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 me	case
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 dollars	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 forget	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 forget	cc
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 forget	nsubj
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 forget	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 forget	advmod
35	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
36	to	to	PART	_	37 take	mark
37	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 forget	xcomp
38	off	off	ADP	_	37 take	compound:prt
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 halter	det
40	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 take	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 able	punct
42	for	for	SCONJ	_	50 able	mark
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	50 able	mark
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 able	nsubj
45	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 able	aux
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 able	nsubj
47	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 able	aux
48	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	50 able	advmod
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 able	cop
50	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 take	advcl
51	to	to	PART	_	52 get	mark
52	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 able	xcomp
53	away	away	ADV	_	52 get	advmod
54	from	from	ADP	_	55 Farmer	case
55	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 get	obl
56	Weatherbeard	Weatherbeard	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 Farmer	flat
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 man	punct
58	for	for	ADP	_	62 man	case
59	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 man	nsubj
60	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	62 man	cop
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 man	det
62	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 get	obl
63	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	65 come	nsubj
64	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	65 come	aux
65	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 man	acl:relcl
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 bargain	cc
67	bargain	bargain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	65 come	conj
68	for	for	ADP	_	69 me	case
69	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	67 bargain	obl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 forget	punct
71	’	'	PUNCT	_	35 forget	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come a condition, not said to happen	should	anyone				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	want	present					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	buy not said to happen	to-infinitive			me		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	Farmer				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	does	present	you				tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here		Farmer		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
7	want	present	you	hundred dollars		for me	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dollar=Theme
8	not forget	must	you				tree rules
9	take off	to-infinitive	you not said here	the halter			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent halter=Theme
10	not is a condition, not said to happen	shall · present · do-support	you			able property	tree rules
11	get away	to-infinitive	you not said here			from Farmer; away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from farmer=Source
12	is	present	Farmer			for the man	tree rules
13	come	future	the man				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
14	bargain	infinitive	the man not said here			for me	vn battle-36.4 «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 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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