The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 8

He gave the clerk the hundred dollars on the spot, and in the evening took the calf round to him, and the clerk promised to do his best with it.

Who acts: man, clerk · What happens: give, take, promise, do · To what, where: clerk, spot, calf, man, best

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 (man, clerk), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 clerk	det
4	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dollars	det
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 dollars	nummod
7	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 spot	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 spot	det
10	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 took	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 evening	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 evening	det
15	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obl
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 calf	det
18	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obj
19	round	round	ADV	_	16 took	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 promised	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 promised	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 clerk	det
25	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 promised	nsubj
26	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 took	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 do	mark
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 promised	xcomp
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 best	nmod:poss
30	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 do	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 do	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	man	the clerk		the spot			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent clerk=Recipient dollar=Theme on spot=Asset
2	take	past		the calf	man		evening	round property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent calf=Theme to he=Destination
3	promise speech: promise	past	the clerk						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the clerk not said here	man's best				with clerk	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality

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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