More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 89

And now he was become the chiefest man in the country-side; 't was no longer plain Tom, but Mr. Hickathrift, and he was held in due respect I promise you.

Who acts: Tom, t, I · What happens: be, hold, promise · To what, where: chiefest man, plain Tom, Tom, due respect, you

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 (Tom, t, I), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 become	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 become	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 become	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 become	cop
5	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	chiefest	chief	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 become	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 side	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 side	det
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 side	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 country	punct
13	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 Tom	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 t	punct
16	t	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Tom	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 Tom	cop
18	no	no	ADV	_	19 longer	advmod
19	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 plain	advmod
20	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Tom	amod
21	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 become	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Hickathrift	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 Hickathrift	cc
24	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Hickathrift	nmod:desc
25	Hickathrift	Hickathrift	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Tom	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 held	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 held	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 held	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 held	aux:pass
30	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 Tom	acl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 respect	case
32	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 respect	amod
33	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 held	obl
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 promise	nsubj
35	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 respect	acl:relcl
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 promise	iobj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Tom	the chiefest man in the country side			now	become property	tree rules
2	is a	past	t	plain Tom but Hickathrift Mr.					tree rules
3	hold	past · passive		Tom		due respect			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in respect=Location
4	promise speech: promise	present	I	due respect not said here	you				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=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: «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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