English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 26
So he offers the forty guineas for the cow, and the owner said that, as he was a friend, he'd oblige him.
Who acts: man, owner · What happens: offer, say, be, oblige · To what, where: forty guineas, owner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, owner), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 offers | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 offers | nsubj |
| 3 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 guineas | det |
| 5 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 guineas | nummod |
| 6 | guineas | guinea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 offers | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 cow | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cow | det |
| 9 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 guineas | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 owner | det |
| 13 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 offers | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 friend | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 friend | case |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 friend | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 friend | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 friend | det |
| 21 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 oblige | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 oblige | nsubj |
| 24 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 oblige | aux |
| 25 | oblige | oblige | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 friend | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 oblige | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 offers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | present | man | the forty guineas | for the cow goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent guinea=Theme for cow=Goal | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the owner | that property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | man | as a friend | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | oblige | would | man | owner | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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