The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 77

Peter Bull was quite willing to do so, and it was settled that he should keep the money, while the peasant made his will and left to him all that he had, before he went home to his wife, and told her the whole story.

Who acts: Peter, peasant · What happens: be, do, settle, keep, make, leave · To what, where: heir, money, Peter, whole story, wife · 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 (Peter, peasant), 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	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 willing	nsubj
2	Bull	Bull	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Peter	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 willing	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 willing	advmod
5	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 willing	xcomp
8	so	so	ADV	_	7 do	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 settled	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 settled	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 settled	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 settled	aux:pass
13	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 willing	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 keep	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 keep	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 keep	aux
17	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 settled	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 money	det
19	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 keep	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 made	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 made	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 peasant	det
23	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	nsubj
24	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 settled	parataxis
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 will	nmod:poss
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 made	advcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 left	cc
28	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 made	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 left	obl
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 had	det:predet
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 had	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 left	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 went	punct
36	before	before	SCONJ	_	38 went	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 went	nsubj
38	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 had	conj
39	home	home	ADV	_	38 went	advmod
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 wife	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 wife	nmod:poss
42	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 went	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 told	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 told	cc
45	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 made	conj
46	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 told	iobj
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 story	det
48	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 story	amod
49	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 told	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 willing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Peter			willing property	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	Peter not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	settle	past · passive		heir			vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location
4	keep	should	Peter	the money			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
5	make	past	the peasant				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	leave	past	the peasant not said here		Peter		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
7	have	past	Peter				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	go	past	Peter			to Peter's wife; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wife=Initial_Location
9	tell speech: assert	past	the peasant not said here	the whole story	wife		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient story=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 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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