The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 106
A horse-dealer came who had a great fancy to bargain for the horse, and the man got a hundred dollars for it, but when the bargain was made, and Jack’s father had got the money, the horse-dealer wanted to have the halter.
Who acts: horse dealer, man, father · What happens: come, have, bargain, get, make, want · To what, where: great fancy, hundred dollars, bargain, money, halter
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 (horse dealer, man, father), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dealer | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dealer | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 horse | punct |
| 4 | dealer | dealer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fancy | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fancy | amod |
| 10 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 bargain | mark |
| 12 | bargain | bargain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fancy | acl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 horse | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bargain | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 got | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 got | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 got | nsubj |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 hundred | det |
| 22 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 dollars | nummod |
| 23 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 got | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 got | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 made | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 made | cc |
| 28 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 32 made | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bargain | det |
| 30 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 made | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 made | aux:pass |
| 32 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 got | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 got | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 got | cc |
| 35 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 father | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 Jack | case |
| 37 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 got | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 got | aux |
| 39 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 came | parataxis |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 money | det |
| 41 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 got | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 wanted | punct |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 dealer | det |
| 44 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 dealer | compound |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 horse | punct |
| 46 | dealer | dealer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 wanted | nsubj |
| 47 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 have | mark |
| 49 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 wanted | xcomp |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 halter | det |
| 51 | halter | halter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 have | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a horse dealer | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | a great fancy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Patient | |||||
| 3 | bargain | to-infinitive | a great fancy not said here | for the horse | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | get | past | the man | hundred dollars | for dealer | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent dollar=Theme for it=Source | |||
| 5 | make | past · passive | the bargain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 6 | get | past · perfect | Jack's father | the money | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | want | past | the horse dealer | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | the horse dealer not said here | the halter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent halter=Patient |
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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