The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 53
The following Sunday, Tiidu, who liked fine clothes when he did not have to pay for them, put on his new coat, and went for a walk to some beautiful pleasure gardens, which were always full of people on a sunny day.
Who acts: Tiidu, beautiful pleasure gardens · What happens: follow, like, not have, pay, put, go · To what, where: fine clothes, new coat, beautiful pleasure gardens
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, beautiful pleasure gardens), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sunday | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Sunday | amod |
| 3 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 liked | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tiidu | punct |
| 5 | Tiidu | Tiidu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sunday | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 liked | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 liked | nsubj |
| 8 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 clothes | amod |
| 10 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 liked | obj |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 have | advmod |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 liked | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 pay | mark |
| 17 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 have | xcomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pay | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 pay | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 coat | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 coat | nmod:poss |
| 24 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 coat | amod |
| 25 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 liked | conj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 walk | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 walk | det |
| 31 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 went | obl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 gardens | case |
| 33 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 gardens | det |
| 34 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 gardens | amod |
| 35 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gardens | compound |
| 36 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 went | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 full | punct |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 full | nsubj |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 full | cop |
| 40 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 41 full | advmod |
| 41 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 gardens | amod |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 people | case |
| 43 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 full | obl |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 47 day | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 day | det |
| 46 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 day | amod |
| 47 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 people | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 liked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | like | past | fine clothes | sunday | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not have | past · do-support | Tiidu | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pay | to-infinitive | Tiidu not said here | for clothes | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | put | infinitive | Tiidu not said here | Tiidu's new coat | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on coat=Destination | ||||
| 6 | go | past | some beautiful pleasure gardens | for a walk | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to garden=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | is | past | some beautiful pleasure gardens | of people on a sunny day; always, full property | tree rules |
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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