The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 107
‘That was no part of our bargain,’ said the man, ‘and the halter you shall not have, for I have other horses which I shall have to sell.’
Who acts: That, man, you, I, other horses, our · What happens: be, say, not have, have, sell, bargain · To what, where: part, man, other horses · 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 (That, man, you, I), 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 part | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 part | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 part | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 part | det |
| 5 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 bargain | case |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bargain | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 part | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 part | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 part | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ‘ | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 man | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 halter | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 halter | det |
| 18 | halter | halter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 man | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 have | advmod |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 man | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 have | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 have | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 have | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 horses | amod |
| 28 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 have | obj |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 have | nsubj |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 have | nsubj |
| 31 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 have | aux |
| 32 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 horses | acl:relcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 sell | mark |
| 34 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 have | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | no part | of our bargain | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the man and ‘ and the halter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not have | shall | you | the man and ‘ and the halter not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | present | I | other horses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 5 | have | shall | other horses | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | sell | to-infinitive | other horses not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | bargain | our | nom bargain «communication intransitive»: poss=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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