English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 24
So the king had offered a peck of silver to anyone who would stop up with him.
What happens: offer, stop up · To what, where: king
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 5 offered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 offered | aux |
| 5 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 peck | det |
| 7 | peck | peck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 offered | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 silver | case |
| 9 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 peck | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 anyone | case |
| 11 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 offered | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 stop | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 stop | aux |
| 14 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 stop | compound:prt |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stop | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past · perfect · passive | the king | to anyone | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal peck=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop up | would | with thing | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with he=Theme |
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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