The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 49
By this time he had been in his place for two years, and had put by quite a large sum of money.
Who acts: sight · What happens: be, put, sum · To what, where: place, money
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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 place | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 place | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 place | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 place | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 place | nmod:poss |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 place | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 put | cc |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 put | aux |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 place | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 sum | case |
| 18 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 sum | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 sum | det |
| 20 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sum | amod |
| 21 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 money | case |
| 23 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sum | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | sight | sight's place | time; year | tree rules | |||
| 2 | put | past · perfect | sight's place not said here | by quite large sum of money | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by sum=Destination | ||||
| 3 | sum | money | nom sum «possession 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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