--- title: "What will you give me, in gold or fee," said Robin, "if I will help… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics description: "What will you give me, in gold or fee," said Robin, "if I will help you win your bride again in spite of the rich old man to whom she has been promised?" Who acts: you, Robin. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Robin), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg18442:11:40 # text = "What will you give me, in gold or fee," said Robin, "if I will help you win your bride again in spite of the rich old man to whom she has been promised?" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 fee fee NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 Robin Robin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 again again ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 spite spite NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nmod _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 promised promise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ? ? PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** *in a quote* | future | you | gold or fee | Robin | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Robin | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **help** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | Robin | you | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **win** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | your bride | | spite of the rich old man to spite of the rich old man to spite | again | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Eventuality | | 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | name | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **spite** *in a quote* | | | the rich old man to spite of the rich old man to spite of the rich old man | | | | | nom spite «feeling 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:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/11/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/11/41/) - ↑ back to [A Story of Robin Hood.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/11/)