The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 4

Well, they went to a great many masters, but all said that they could make the lad as good as they were themselves, but better than that they could not make him.

Who acts: food · What happens: go, say, make, be, not make · To what, where: great many masters, lad, food, Jack · 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 (food), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 masters	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 masters	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 masters	amod
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 masters	amod
9	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 said	advmod
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 make	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 make	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 make	aux
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lad	det
19	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	obj
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 good	advmod
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 make	xcomp
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 themselves	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 themselves	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 themselves	cop
25	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 good	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 better	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 better	cc
28	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 went	parataxis
29	than	than	SCONJ	_	34 make	mark
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 than	fixed
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 make	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 make	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 make	advmod
34	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 better	advcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 make	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	food		a great many masters		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to master=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	food not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make	could	food	the lad		good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lad=Product
4	is a	past	food	food			tree rules
5	not make	could	food	Jack			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

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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