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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 2

The people he met were all friendly and kind, and enjoyed his flute-playing, giving him his food in return, and even a few pence.

Who acts: Tiidu, people · What happens: meet, be, enjoy, play, give · To what, where: people, flute, food, Tiidu, return

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, people), 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

detnsubjnsubjacl:relclcopadvmodccconjpunctccconjnmod:possobjpunctxcomppunctconjiobjnmod:possobjcaseoblpunctccadvmoddetamodparataxispunctrootTheDETpeopleNOUNhePRONmetVERBwereAUXallADVfriendlyADJandCCONJkindADJ,PUNCTandCCONJenjoyedVERBhisPRONfluteNOUN-PUNCTplayingVERB,PUNCTgivingVERBhimPRONhisPRONfoodNOUNinADPreturnNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJevenADVaDETfewADJpenceNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 peopledet
2peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur7 friendlynsubj
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 metnsubj
4metmeetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 peopleacl:relcl
5werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 friendlycop
6allallADV_7 friendlyadvmod
7friendlyfriendlyADJDegree=Posrootroot
8andandCCONJ_9 kindcc
9kindkindADJDegree=Pos7 friendlyconj
10,,PUNCT_12 enjoyedpunct
11andandCCONJ_12 enjoyedcc
12enjoyedenjoyVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 friendlyconj
13hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 flutenmod:poss
14flutefluteNOUNNumber=Sing12 enjoyedobj
15--PUNCT_14 flutepunct
16playingplayVERBVerbForm=Ger12 enjoyedxcomp
17,,PUNCT_18 givingpunct
18givinggiveVERBVerbForm=Ger16 playingconj
19himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 givingiobj
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 foodnmod:poss
21foodfoodNOUNNumber=Sing18 givingobj
22ininADP_23 returncase
23returnreturnNOUNNumber=Sing18 givingobl
24,,PUNCT_29 pencepunct
25andandCCONJ_29 pencecc
26evenevenADV_29 penceadvmod
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art29 pencedet
28fewfewADJDegree=Pos29 penceamod
29pencepenceNOUNNumber=Sing7 friendlyparataxis
30..PUNCT_7 friendlypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1meetpastTiiduthe people not said herevn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent
2ispastthe peopleall, friendly propertytree rules
3bethe people not said heretree rules
4enjoypastthe people not said hereTiidu's flutetree rules
5playgerundthe people not said herevn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6givegerundthe people not said hereTiidu's foodTiidureturnvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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