The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 9

‘I have to go and get my son apprenticed to someone who will be able to teach him a trade, for my old woman comes of such well-to-do folk that she insists on his being taught to be master of all masters,’ said the man.

Who acts: I, son, old woman, woman, man · What happens: have, go, get, apprentice, be, teach · To what, where: son, trade, folk, master · 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 (I, son, old woman, woman), 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	_	3 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 said	ccomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 get	cc
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 son	nmod:poss
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
10	apprenticed	apprentice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 get	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 someone	case
12	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 apprenticed	obl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 able	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 able	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 able	cop
16	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 someone	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 teach	mark
18	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 able	xcomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 teach	obj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 trade	det
21	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 teach	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 comes	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 comes	mark
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 woman	nmod:poss
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 woman	amod
26	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 comes	nsubj
27	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	34 do	mark
29	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	34 do	mark
30	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 do	advmod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 do	punct
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 do	case
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 to	punct
34	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 comes	advcl
35	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 do	obj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 insists	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 insists	nsubj
38	insists	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 do	advcl
39	on	on	SCONJ	_	42 taught	mark
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 taught	nsubj:pass
41	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 taught	aux:pass
42	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 insists	ccomp
43	to	to	PART	_	45 master	mark
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 master	cop
45	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 taught	xcomp
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 masters	case
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 masters	det
48	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 master	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
50	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
51	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 man	det
53	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 said	nsubj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	51 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I				tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	infinitive	I not said here	my son			tree rules
4	apprentice	participle	my son not said here			to someone	vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	future				able property	tree rules
6	teach speech: other	to-infinitive		a trade	son		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient trade=Topic
7	come	present	my old woman				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	do	infinitive	my old woman not said here	folk		well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=Eventuality
9	insist speech: other	present	woman				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	teach speech: other	gerund · passive		son			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
11	is a	to-infinitive	son not said here	master		of all masters	tree rules
12	say speech: assert	past	the man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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