The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 23

The young man took out his precious bit of paper, handed them the six shillings, and the next morning bade them farewell, with the cat lying snugly in his cloak.

Who acts: young man, cat · What happens: take out, hand, lie · To what, where: precious bit, eyes, cloak

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, cat), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 took	compound:prt
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bit	nmod:poss
7	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bit	amod
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 paper	case
10	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bit	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 handed	punct
12	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 handed	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shillings	det
15	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 shillings	nummod
16	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 handed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bade	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bade	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bade	det
20	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bade	amod
21	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bade	compound
22	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 handed	obl:unmarked
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bade	obj
24	farewell	farewell	ADV	_	12 handed	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 cat	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 cat	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cat	det
28	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 handed	parataxis
29	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 cat	acl
30	snugly	snugly	ADV	_	29 lying	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 cloak	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 cloak	nmod:poss
33	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lying	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take out	past	the young man	man's precious bit of paper			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme
2	hand	past	the young man not said here	eyes = eye		the next morning bade obl:unmarked; farewell property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination shilling=Theme
3	lie	gerund	the cat not said here		man's cloak	snugly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cloak=Location

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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