The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 5

When the man came home to the old woman with this answer, she said, ‘I shall be equally well pleased whatever you do with him; but this I do say, that you are to have him made a master over all masters.’

Who acts: man, woman, I, you, this · What happens: come, say, be, do, make · To what, where: master, masters · 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 (man, woman, I, you), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	advcl
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 woman	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 answer	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 answer	det
12	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 woman	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pleased	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 pleased	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 pleased	nsubj
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 pleased	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 pleased	cop
21	equally	equally	ADV	_	23 pleased	advmod
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 pleased	advmod
23	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	ccomp
24	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 pleased	obj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 do	nsubj
26	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 whatever	acl:relcl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 do	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 say	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 say	cc
31	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 say	nsubj
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 say	nsubj
33	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 say	aux
34	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	parataxis
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 have	punct
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 have	mark
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 have	nsubj
38	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 have	cop
39	to	to	PART	_	40 have	mark
40	have	have	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 say	ccomp
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 have	obj
42	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 have	xcomp
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 master	det
44	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 made	obj
45	over	over	ADP	_	47 masters	case
46	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	47 masters	det
47	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 master	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 say	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the man			to the old woman with this answer; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to woman=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	shall	I			equally, pleased, well property	tree rules
4	do	present	you			with Jack	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	present · do-support	this				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	is	present	you			have property	tree rules
7	make	participle	you not said here	a master	all masters		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset master=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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