Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 45

They offered to buy his fiddle and promised a high price for it, but he refused to sell it, as his fiddle brought to him his means of livelihood.

Who acts: brothers, Jogi, fiddle · What happens: offer, buy, promise, refuse, not sell, bring · To what, where: fiddle, high price, Jogi

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, Jogi, fiddle), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 offered	nsubj
2	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 buy	mark
4	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 offered	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fiddle	nmod:poss
6	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buy	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 promised	cc
8	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 offered	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 price	det
10	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 price	amod
11	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 promised	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 promised	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 refused	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 refused	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 refused	nsubj
17	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 offered	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 sell	mark
19	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 refused	xcomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sell	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 brought	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 brought	mark
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 fiddle	nmod:poss
24	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 brought	nsubj
25	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 means	nsubj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 brought	obl
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 means	nmod:poss
29	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 refused	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 livelihood	case
31	livelihood	livelihood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 means	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	offer	past	brothers = brother				tree rules
2	buy not said to happen	to-infinitive	brothers = brother not said here	Jogi's fiddle			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiddle=Theme
3	promise speech: promise	past	brothers = brother not said here	a high price		for Fiddle	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent price=Theme for it=Goal
4	refuse	past	Jogi				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not sell	to-infinitive	Jogi not said here	Fiddle			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	bring	past	Jogi's fiddle		Jogi		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination
7	mean	present				of livelihood	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/45/