The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 4

At last Simon gave way to the request and persuasive eloquence of his housekeeper, and betook himself one day to the market where he had seen a mule, which he thought would just suit him, and which he bought for seven gold pieces.

Who acts: Simon, mule · What happens: give, betake, see, think, suit, buy · To what, where: way, request, last Simon, Simon, mule · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simon, mule), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 Simon	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Simon	amod
3	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 request	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 request	det
8	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 eloquence	cc
10	persuasive	persuasive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eloquence	amod
11	eloquence	eloquence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 request	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 housekeeper	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 housekeeper	nmod:poss
14	housekeeper	housekeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eloquence	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 betook	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 betook	cc
17	betook	betake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 betook	obj
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 day	nummod
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 betook	obl:unmarked
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 market	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 market	det
23	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 betook	obl
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 seen	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 seen	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 seen	aux
27	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 market	acl:relcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 mule	det
29	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seen	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 thought	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 thought	nsubj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 thought	nsubj
33	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 mule	acl
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 suit	aux
35	just	just	ADV	_	36 suit	advmod
36	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 thought	ccomp
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 suit	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 bought	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 bought	cc
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 bought	nsubj
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 bought	nsubj
42	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
43	for	for	ADP	_	46 pieces	case
44	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 pieces	nummod
45	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 pieces	compound
46	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 bought	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past		way	the request and persuasive eloquence of Simon's housekeeper	last Simon			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent way=Theme at simon=Asset to request=Recipient
2	betake	past		Simon			day	to the market	tree rules
3	see	past · perfect	Simon	a mule					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mule=Stimulus
4	think speech: other	past	a mule						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	suit	would		Simon					tree rules
6	buy	past						for seven gold pieces	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for piece=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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