The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 80

However, the robbers would not listen to him, and at last he consented to take forty gold pieces for the guitar.

Who acts: robbers, One · What happens: not listen, consent, take · To what, where: One, last, forty gold pieces

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, One), 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	However	however	ADV	_	7 listen	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 robbers	det
4	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 listen	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 listen	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 listen	advmod
7	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 listen	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 consented	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 consented	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 last	case
13	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 consented	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 consented	nsubj
15	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 listen	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 take	mark
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 consented	xcomp
18	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 pieces	nummod
19	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pieces	compound
20	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 take	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 guitar	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 guitar	det
23	guitar	guitar	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not listen	would	the robbers		One		however property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme
2	consent	past	One			last		vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	take	to-infinitive	One not said here	forty gold pieces			for the guitar	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent piece=Theme for guitar=Beneficiary

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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