The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 30

‘It’s all the same to me what trade I follow,’ said the youth, ‘for when I came away from home my father gave me leave to take to any trade I fancied.’

Who acts: mind, I, father · What happens: be, follow, say, come away, give, leave · To what, where: me, trade, youth, home · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mind, I, father), 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	_	6 same	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 same	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 same	cop
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 same	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 same	obl
9	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	10 trade	det
10	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 same	parataxis
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 follow	nsubj
12	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 trade	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 same	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 same	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 youth	det
17	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 came	mark
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 came	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	parataxis
24	away	away	ADV	_	23 came	advmod
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 home	case
26	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gave	obl
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 father	nmod:poss
28	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gave	nsubj
29	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 came	conj
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 gave	iobj
31	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 gave	xcomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 take	mark
33	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 leave	xcomp
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 trade	case
35	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	36 trade	det
36	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 take	obl
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 fancied	nsubj
38	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 trade	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	mind		me		same property	tree rules
2	follow	present	I	what trade not said here				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past		the youth				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic
4	come away	past	I				away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	give	past	my father		me	home		tree rules
6	leave	infinitive	my father not said here					tree rules
7	take	to-infinitive	my father not said here				to any trade result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to trade=Result
8	fancy	past	I	any trade not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trade=Stimulus

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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