The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 37

Finally he grew bold, and said that if the king would give him two hundred dollars for it, he was his man to stand sentry next night as well.

Who acts: Christian, king · What happens: grow, say, give, be, stand · To what, where: hundred dollars, Christian, man, sentry · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christian, king), 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	Finally	finally	ADV	_	3 grew	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 give	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 give	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 give	aux
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 give	iobj
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 hundred	compound
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 dollars	nummod
17	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 give	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 dollars	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 man	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 man	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 man	cop
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 man	nmod:poss
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 stand	mark
26	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 man	acl
27	sentry	sentry	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stand	obj
28	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 night	amod
29	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stand	obl:unmarked
30	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	26 stand	advmod
31	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 as	fixed
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Christian				bold, finally property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Christian not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give a condition, not said to happen	would	the king	hundred dollars	Christian		for latter	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dollar=Theme for it=Asset
4	is a	past	Christian	Christian's man				tree rules
5	stand	to-infinitive	Christian not said here	sentry		night		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sentry=Stimulus

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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