The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 87
Father Peter filled his pockets with gold for the wedding dowry, and agreed with him that when all was settled he should secretly send him word that Peter might send off the waggon load of house plenishings with which the rich bridegroom was to make such a stir in the little town where the bride lived.
Who acts: Father Peter, Peter, word, waggon load, bride · What happens: fill, agree, settle, send, send off, make · To what, where: pockets, all, word, Friedlin, waggon load, stir
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father Peter, Peter, word, waggon load), 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 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Peter | compound |
| 2 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | nsubj |
| 3 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 filled | obj | |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 gold | case |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 dowry | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dowry | det |
| 10 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dowry | compound |
| 11 | dowry | dowry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 agreed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 agreed | cc |
| 14 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 filled | parataxis |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 agreed | obl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 settled | mark |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 settled | advmod |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 settled | aux:pass |
| 21 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 send | advcl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 send | nsubj |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 send | aux |
| 24 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 25 send | advmod |
| 25 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 agreed | xcomp |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 send | obj |
| 27 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 send | obj |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 send | nsubj |
| 29 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 send | nsubj |
| 30 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 send | aux |
| 31 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 word | acl:relcl |
| 32 | off | off | ADP | _ | 31 send | compound:prt |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 load | det |
| 34 | waggon | waggon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 load | compound |
| 35 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 send | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 plenishings | case |
| 37 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 plenishings | compound |
| 38 | plenishings | plenishing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 load | nmod |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 which | case |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 plenishings | nmod |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 bridegroom | det |
| 42 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 bridegroom | amod |
| 43 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 which | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 bridegroom | acl |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 make | mark |
| 46 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 was | xcomp |
| 47 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 49 stir | det:predet |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 stir | det |
| 49 | stir | stir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 make | obj |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 53 town | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 town | det |
| 52 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 town | amod |
| 53 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 stir | nmod |
| 54 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 57 lived | advmod |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 bride | det |
| 56 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 lived | nsubj |
| 57 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 town | acl:relcl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | Father Peter | Peter's pockets | with gold; for the wedding dowry | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient with gold=Instrument | |||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past | with Peter | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | settle | past · passive | all | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location | |||||
| 4 | send not said to happen | should | Peter | word | Friedlin | secretly property | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination word=Theme | ||
| 5 | send off | might | word | the waggon load of house plenishings with the waggon load of house plenishings with the waggon load | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme | ||||
| 6 | make | to-infinitive | the waggon load of house plenishings with the waggon load of house plenishings with the waggon load not said here | such stir | the little town | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stir=Product | |||
| 7 | live | past | the bride | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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