The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 43

The shoemaker at first declared that nothing would induce him to sell him, but at last he agreed to hand him over to the robbers for fifty gold pieces.

Who acts: shoemaker, nothing, donkey · What happens: declare, induce, sell, agree, hand over · To what, where: donkey, 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 (shoemaker, nothing, donkey), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shoemaker	det
2	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 declared	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 first	case
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 declared	obl
5	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 induce	mark
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 induce	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 induce	aux
9	induce	induce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 declared	xcomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 induce	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sell	mark
12	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 induce	xcomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sell	iobj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 agreed	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 agreed	cc
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 agreed	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 agreed	nsubj
19	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 declared	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 hand	mark
21	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 agreed	xcomp
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hand	obj
23	over	over	ADP	_	21 hand	compound:prt
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 robbers	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 robbers	det
26	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hand	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 pieces	case
28	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 pieces	nummod
29	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pieces	compound
30	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 robbers	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	the shoemaker				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	induce	would	nothing	donkey			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result
3	sell	to-infinitive	nothing not said here		donkey		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	agree speech: agree	past	donkey			last	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	hand over not said to happen	to-infinitive	donkey not said here	donkey		the robbers for fifty gold pieces	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to robber=Destination

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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