The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 67

Simon replied that he was most unwilling to part with the creature, as no amount of money would make up to him for its loss; still, if they were quite set on it, he would let them have the goat for fifty gold pieces.

Who acts: Simon, amount, goats · What happens: reply, unwill, make up, set, let, have · To what, where: Simon, goats, amount, goat, money

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, amount, goats), 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	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 replied	nsubj
2	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 unwilling	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 unwilling	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 unwilling	aux
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 unwilling	advmod
7	unwilling	unwill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 replied	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 part	mark
9	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 unwilling	advcl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 creature	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 creature	det
12	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 unwilling	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 make	mark
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 amount	det
16	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 make	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 money	case
18	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 amount	nmod
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 make	aux
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 replied	parataxis
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 make	compound:prt
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 make	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 loss	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 loss	nmod:poss
26	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 make	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 let	punct
28	still	still	ADV	_	40 let	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 still	punct
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 set	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 set	nsubj:pass
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 set	aux:pass
33	quite	quite	ADV	_	34 set	advmod
34	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 let	advcl
35	on	on	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 set	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 set	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 let	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 let	aux
40	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 make	conj
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 let	obj
42	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 let	xcomp
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 goat	det
44	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 have	obj
45	for	for	ADP	_	48 pieces	case
46	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 pieces	nummod
47	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 pieces	compound
48	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 have	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Simon						vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	unwill	past · progressive	Simon					with the creature	tree rules
3	make up	would	no amount of money		Simon			for amount's loss	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	set a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		goats = goat		amount			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on it=Destination
5	let	would	Simon	goats = goat			still		tree rules
6	have	infinitive	goats = goat not said here	the goat				for fifty gold pieces	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Patient
7	amount			money					nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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