The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 73

When the merchant saw what kind of man he had before him he began to speak him fair, and invited him to stay with him for some days, so that they might have some more talk together.

Who acts: merchant, man, sorrow, dollars · What happens: see, have, begin, speak, invite, stay · To what, where: kind, sorrow, more talk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, man, sorrow, dollars), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 merchant	det
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	advcl
5	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	6 kind	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 man	case
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 speak	mark
16	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 speak	obj
18	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 speak	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 invited	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 invited	cc
21	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 invited	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 stay	mark
24	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 invited	xcomp
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stay	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 days	case
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 days	det
29	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 stay	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 have	punct
31	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	35 have	mark
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 so	fixed
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 have	nsubj
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 have	aux
35	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 stay	conj
36	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	38 talk	det
37	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 talk	amod
38	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 have	obj
39	together	together	ADV	_	35 have	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the merchant	what kind of man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kind=Stimulus
2	have	past	man		before sorrow		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	begin	past	man				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	man not said here	sorrow		fair property	tree rules
5	invite	past	man not said here	sorrow			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	sorrow not said here		day	with sorrow	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location
7	have	might	dollars = dollar	some more talk		together property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Patient

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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