English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 21

“He said that he was out of leather, and his pockets were empty, so you were to send him a few shillings to buy a fresh stock of leather.”

Who acts: Deary, pockets, you · What happens: say, be, send, buy, stock · To what, where: leather, few shillings, Deary, fresh stock · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Deary, pockets, you), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 leather	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 leather	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 leather	cop
7	out	out	ADP	_	9 leather	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 leather	case
9	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 empty	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 empty	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 pockets	nmod:poss
13	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 empty	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 empty	cop
15	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 send	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	21 send	advmod
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 send	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 send	aux
20	to	to	PART	_	21 send	mark
21	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 empty	parataxis
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 send	obj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 shillings	det
24	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 shillings	amod
25	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 send	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 buy	mark
27	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 send	advcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 stock	det
29	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 stock	amod
30	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 buy	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 leather	case
32	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stock	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Deary					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	past	Deary			leather		tree rules
3	is in a quote	past	Deary's pockets				empty property	tree rules
4	send in a quote	past	you	a few shillings	Deary			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination shilling=Theme
5	buy in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	a fresh stock of leather				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stock=Theme
6	stock in a quote			leather				nom stock «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: «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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