The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 8

In a few years he had become so noted a piper that people would travel far and wide to hear him.

Who acts: Tiidu, piper · What happens: become, note, travel, hear · To what, where: piper, Tiidu

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, piper), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 years	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 years	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 become	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 become	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 become	aux
7	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 noted	advmod
9	noted	note	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 become	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 piper	det
11	piper	piper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 noted	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 travel	nsubj
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 travel	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 travel	aux
15	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 piper	acl:relcl
16	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 travel	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wide	cc
18	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 far	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 hear	mark
20	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 travel	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hear	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	become	past · perfect	Tiidu		year		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	note	past	Tiidu not said here	a piper			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent piper=Topic
3	travel	would	a piper			far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hear	to-infinitive	a piper not said here	Tiidu			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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