The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 50

His passion of saving had increased to such a pitch that it was only by his master’s orders that he ever bought any new clothes, “For,” said the merchant, “I will not have dirty people in my house.”

Who acts: passion, sight, merchant · What happens: increase, be, buy, say, not have · To what, where: passion, new clothes, dirty people, house · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (passion, sight, merchant), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 passion	nmod:poss
2	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 increased	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 saving	case
4	saving	saving	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passion	nmod
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 increased	aux
6	increased	increase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 pitch	case
8	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 pitch	det:predet
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pitch	det
10	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 increased	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 orders	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 orders	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 orders	cop
14	only	only	ADV	_	19 orders	advmod
15	by	by	ADP	_	19 orders	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 master	nmod:poss
17	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 orders	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 master	case
19	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 increased	obl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 bought	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bought	nsubj
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 bought	advmod
23	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 orders	acl:relcl
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 clothes	det
25	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 clothes	amod
26	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	23 bought	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
29	For	for	SCONJ	_	32 said	mark
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 For	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 For	punct
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 bought	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 merchant	det
34	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 said	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 have	punct
36	“	"	PUNCT	_	40 have	punct
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 have	nsubj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 have	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 have	advmod
40	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 said	conj
41	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 people	amod
42	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 have	obj
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 house	case
44	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 house	nmod:poss
45	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 have	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 orders	punct
47	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 increased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	increase	past · perfect · passive		sight's passion of saving			to such pitch result	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: subject=Extent to pitch=Result
2	is	past	passion				by sight's master's orders	tree rules
3	buy	past	sight	any new clothes		ever		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the merchant					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not have in a quote	future	the merchant = merchant	dirty people	my house			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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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