The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 81
She decided to buy a strong ass to do the work, and having chosen one, and after some bargaining with the owner as to its price, she went to the cupboard in the wall to fetch the money.
Who acts: Dame, some · What happens: decide, buy, do, choose, bargain, go · To what, where: strong ass, work, one, wall, money
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dame, some), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 decided | nsubj |
| 2 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 buy | mark |
| 4 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 decided | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ass | det |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ass | amod |
| 7 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buy | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 buy | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 work | det |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 chosen | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 chosen | cc |
| 14 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 chosen | aux |
| 15 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 decided | parataxis |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 chosen | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 went | cc |
| 19 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 21 bargaining | mark |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 bargaining | nsubj |
| 21 | bargaining | bargain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 went | advcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 owner | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 owner | det |
| 24 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bargaining | obl |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 28 price | case |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 as | fixed |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 price | nmod:poss |
| 28 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bargaining | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bargaining | punct |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 went | nsubj |
| 31 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 decided | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 cupboard | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 cupboard | det |
| 34 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 went | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 wall | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 wall | det |
| 37 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 went | obl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 fetch | mark |
| 39 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 went | advcl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 money | det |
| 41 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 fetch | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | Dame | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | buy not said to happen | to-infinitive | Dame not said here | a strong ass | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | Dame not said here | the work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | choose | gerund · perfect | one | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bargain | gerund | some | with the owner; as owner's price | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with owner=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | go | past | Dame | the wall | to the cupboard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cupboard=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | fetch | to-infinitive | Dame not said here | the money | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
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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