The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 80

Meanwhile he ordered some fine clothes, in which he played every Sunday in the gardens, and when he counted his gains in the evening they were always more than on the Sunday before.

Who acts: Tiidu, gains · What happens: order, play, count, be · To what, where: fine clothes, gardens, gains, evening

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, gains), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	3 ordered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ordered	nsubj
3	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 clothes	det
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 clothes	amod
6	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 ordered	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 played	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 played	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 played	nsubj
11	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ordered	conj
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 Sunday	det
13	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 played	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 gardens	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gardens	det
16	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 played	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 counted	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 counted	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 counted	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 counted	nsubj
21	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ordered	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 gains	nmod:poss
23	gains	gain	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 counted	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 evening	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 evening	det
26	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 counted	obl
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 more	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 more	cop
29	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	30 more	advmod
30	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 evening	acl:relcl
31	than	than	ADP	_	34 Sunday	case
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 Sunday	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Sunday	det
34	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 more	obl
35	before	before	ADV	_	34 Sunday	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	Tiidu	some fine clothes			meanwhile property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme
2	play	past	Tiidu		the gardens	sunday		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	count	past	Tiidu	Tiidu's gains		evening		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gain=Theme
4	is	past	gains = gain	the evening not said here		sunday	always, more 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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