The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 57

When the meeting was over, he began to make inquiries about a small estate that was for sale near the town, and after he had bought it the next thing was to find a wife to share it with him.

Who acts: meeting, king, that, next thing · What happens: be, begin, make, buy, share · To what, where: inquiries, town, meeting

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meeting, king, that, next thing), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 over	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meeting	det
3	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 over	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 over	cop
5	over	over	ADV	_	8 began	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 over	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 began	nsubj
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 make	mark
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	inquiries	inquiry	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 make	obj
12	about	about	ADP	_	15 estate	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 estate	det
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 estate	amod
15	estate	estate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 inquiries	nmod
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 sale	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sale	cop
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 sale	case
19	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 estate	conj
20	near	near	ADP	_	22 town	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 town	det
22	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sale	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bought	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 bought	cc
25	after	after	SCONJ	_	28 bought	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bought	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 bought	aux
28	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 began	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bought	obj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 thing	det
31	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 thing	amod
32	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 find	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 find	cop
34	to	to	PART	_	35 find	mark
35	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 bought	advcl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 wife	det
37	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 find	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 share	mark
39	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 wife	acl
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 share	obj
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 share	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the meeting			over property	tree rules
2	begin	past	king				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	make	to-infinitive	king not said here	inquiries		about a small estate and sale	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset inquiry=Product
4	is	past	that		the town	for sale	tree rules
5	buy	past · perfect	king	meeting			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	is	past	the next thing			find property	tree rules
7	share	to-infinitive	the next thing not said here	meeting		with king	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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