More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 23

They thought they had a good prize in Tom, who was all alone, and made cocksure of his money.

Who acts: rogues, Tom · What happens: think, have, be, make · To what, where: good prize, Tom, cocksure · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rogues, Tom), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 prize	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 prize	amod
7	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Tom	case
9	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 alone	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 alone	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 alone	cop
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 alone	advmod
14	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 Tom	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
18	cocksure	cocksure	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 money	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 money	nmod:poss
21	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cocksure	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	rogues = rogue				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	rogues = rogue	a good prize	Tom		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Patient
3	is	past	Tom			all, alone property	tree rules
4	make	past		cocksure of Tom's money			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cocksure=Product

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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