The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 51
So with a heavy heart Tiidu spent some of his next month’s wages on a cheap coat.
Who acts: heavy heart · What happens: spend · To what, where: some
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 (heavy heart), 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 | _ | 7 spent | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 heart | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 heart | det |
| 4 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heart | amod |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spent | nsubj |
| 6 | Tiidu | Tiidu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heart | appos |
| 7 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 spent | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wages | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 month | nmod:poss |
| 11 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 month | amod |
| 12 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wages | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 month | case |
| 14 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 some | nmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 coat | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 coat | det |
| 17 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 coat | amod |
| 18 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wages | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | a heavy heart | some | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Asset |
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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