The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 46
But the sight of these things only made Tiidu more covetous than before.
Who acts: sight · What happens: make, sight · To what, where: things
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 (sight), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sight | det |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 things | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 things | det |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sight | nmod |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 made | advmod |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Tiidu | Tiidu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 covetous | nsubj |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 covetous | advmod |
| 11 | covetous | covetous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 made | xcomp |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 before | case |
| 13 | before | before | ADV | _ | 11 covetous | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the sight of this things | covetous property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | sight | this things | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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