The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 43

And the young man told him that it was called a cat, and that he had bought it for six shillings.

Who acts: young man, magic · What happens: tell, call, buy · To what, where: magic, kind · Speech: someone speaks here

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, magic), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 called	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 called	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 called	aux:pass
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 told	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cat	det
12	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 called	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bought	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bought	cc
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 bought	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bought	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bought	aux
18	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 called	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bought	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 shillings	case
21	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 shillings	nummod
22	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bought	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the young man		magic		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	call	past · passive		kind			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	buy	past · perfect	magic	kind		for six shillings	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for shilling=Beneficiary

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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