The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 35
So he gave him dry clothes to wear, and a berth to sleep in, and Tiidu and his friend secretly made merry over their cunning trick.
Who acts: Tiidu, friends · What happens: give, wear, sleep in, make, trick · To what, where: dry clothes, person, cunning trick
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, friends), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 clothes | amod |
| 6 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 wear | mark |
| 8 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 clothes | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 berth | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 berth | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 berth | det |
| 12 | berth | berth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 sleep | mark |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 berth | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 14 sleep | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 made | cc |
| 18 | Tiidu | Tiidu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 made | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 friend | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 friend | nmod:poss |
| 21 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Tiidu | conj |
| 22 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 23 made | advmod |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 24 | merry | merry | ADV | _ | 23 made | advmod |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 trick | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 trick | nmod:poss |
| 27 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 trick | amod |
| 28 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Tiidu | dry clothes | person | a berth obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clothes=Theme | ||
| 2 | wear | to-infinitive | Tiidu not said here | dry clothes not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sleep in | to-infinitive | Tiidu not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | past | Tiidu and Tiidu's friend | friends's cunning trick | merry, secretly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | trick | friends = friend | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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