The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 120

But the robbers offered him forty gold pieces, and at last he agreed to let them have the dog.

Who acts: robbers, dog · What happens: offer, agree, let, have · To what, where: forty gold pieces, dog, last, robbers

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robbers, dog), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 offered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 robbers	det
3	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 offered	nsubj
4	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 offered	iobj
6	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 pieces	nummod
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pieces	compound
8	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 offered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 agreed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 agreed	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 agreed	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 agreed	nsubj
14	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 offered	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 let	mark
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 agreed	xcomp
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dog	det
20	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	offer	past	the robbers	forty gold pieces	dog		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal piece=Theme
2	agree speech: agree	past	dog			last	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let not said to happen	to-infinitive	dog not said here	robbers = robber			tree rules
4	have	infinitive	robbers = robber not said here	the dog			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=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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