The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 3
These pence the youth hoarded carefully till he had collected enough to buy a beautiful pair of pipes.
Who acts: These, youth · What happens: pence, hoard, collect, buy · To what, where: beautiful pair
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 (These, youth), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 pence | nsubj |
| 2 | pence | pence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 youth | det |
| 4 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hoarded | nsubj |
| 5 | hoarded | hoard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pence | ccomp |
| 6 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 5 hoarded | advmod |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 collected | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 collected | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 collected | aux |
| 10 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 hoarded | parataxis |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 collected | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 buy | mark |
| 13 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 collected | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pair | det |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pair | amod |
| 16 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 buy | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 pipes | case |
| 18 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pair | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pence | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pence | present | These | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hoard | past | the youth | carefully property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | collect | past · perfect | youth | enough property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | buy | to-infinitive | youth not said here | a beautiful pair of pipes | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=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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