The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 116

The youth changed himself into a great black horse, and told his father that if a man came and offered him three hundred dollars, and treated him well and handsomely into the bargain, he was to sell him, but whatsoever he did, or how much soever he drank, he must not forget to take off the halter, or else he himself would never get away from Farmer Weatherbeard as long as he lived.

Who acts: youth, man · What happens: change, tell, come, offer, treat, be · To what, where: youth, father, hundred dollars, bargain, much, 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 (youth, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changed	nsubj
3	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 changed	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	9 horse	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 horse	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 horse	amod
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 horse	amod
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 changed	parataxis
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	iobj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 came	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 came	mark
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	advcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 offered	cc
21	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 offered	iobj
23	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 hundred	compound
24	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 dollars	nummod
25	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 offered	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 treated	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 treated	cc
28	treated	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	parataxis
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 treated	obj
30	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 treated	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 handsomely	cc
32	handsomely	handsomely	ADV	_	30 well	conj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 bargain	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bargain	det
35	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 treated	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sell	punct
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 sell	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 sell	cop
39	to	to	PART	_	40 sell	mark
40	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 changed	advcl
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 sell	iobj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 did	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 did	cc
44	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	46 did	advmod
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 did	nsubj
46	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 changed	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 drank	punct
48	or	or	CCONJ	_	53 drank	cc
49	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	50 much	advmod
50	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 drank	obj
51	soever	soever	ADV	_	53 drank	advmod
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 drank	nsubj
53	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 changed	parataxis
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 forget	punct
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 forget	nsubj
56	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 forget	aux
57	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	58 forget	advmod
58	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 drank	conj
59	to	to	PART	_	60 take	mark
60	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 forget	xcomp
61	off	off	ADP	_	60 take	compound:prt
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 halter	det
63	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 take	obj
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 get	punct
65	or	or	CCONJ	_	71 get	cc
66	else	else	ADV	_	71 get	advmod
67	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	71 get	nsubj
68	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	67 he	nmod:unmarked
69	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	71 get	aux
70	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	71 get	advmod
71	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 drank	conj
72	away	away	ADV	_	71 get	advmod
73	from	from	ADP	_	75 Weatherbeard	case
74	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	75 Weatherbeard	compound
75	Weatherbeard	Weatherbeard	PROPN	Number=Sing	72 away	obl
76	as	as	ADV	_	77 long	advmod
77	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	71 get	advmod
78	as	as	SCONJ	_	80 lived	mark
79	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	80 lived	nsubj
80	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	77 long	advcl
81	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	change	past	the youth	youth			into a great black horse result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into horse=Result
2	tell speech: assert	past			youth's father			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient
3	come a condition, not said to happen	past	a man					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	offer	past	a man not said here	hundred dollars	youth			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal dollar=Theme
5	treat	past			youth	the bargain	well property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	is	past	youth		father		sell property	tree rules
7	do	past	youth				whatsoever property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	drink	past	youth	much			soever property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
9	not forget	must	youth					tree rules
10	take off	to-infinitive	youth not said here	the halter				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent halter=Theme
11	not get away	would	youth				away, else, long property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
12	live	past	youth					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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