The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 142

Who will buy skins?’ he cried again, and to all who asked him what they cost, he answered, ‘A bushel of money.’

Who acts: bushel, pieces · What happens: buy, cry, ask, cost, answer · To what, where: skins, bushel

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bushel, pieces), 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 buy	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 buy	aux
3	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 buy	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 buy	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 buy	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 buy	parataxis
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 cried	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 answered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 answered	cc
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 answered	obl
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 asked	nsubj
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 all	acl:relcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 asked	iobj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 asked	obj
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cost	nsubj
19	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 what	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 all	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 answered	nsubj
22	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bushel	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 bushel	punct
25	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 bushel	det
26	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 answered	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 money	case
28	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bushel	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 buy	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 buy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	buy	future		skins				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	bushel			again		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	past			bushel			tree rules
4	cost	past	pieces = piece					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
5	answer speech: assert	past	bushel	a bushel of money			to all	vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to all=Co-Agent

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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