The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 113
He understood very well the kinds of stones wanted for the different purposes, and as he was a careful workman he had plenty of customers.
Who acts: Cutter, kinds · What happens: understand, want, be, have · To what, where: careful workman, plenty
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cutter, kinds), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 understood | nsubj |
| 2 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 well | advmod |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 wanted | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kinds | det |
| 6 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wanted | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 stones | case |
| 8 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kinds | nmod |
| 9 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 understood | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 purposes | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 purposes | det |
| 12 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 purposes | amod |
| 13 | purposes | purpose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wanted | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 workman | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 workman | cc |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 workman | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 workman | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 workman | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 workman | det |
| 20 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 workman | amod |
| 21 | workman | workman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wanted | conj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 workman | acl:relcl |
| 24 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 customers | case |
| 26 | customers | customer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 plenty | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | Cutter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | want | past | the kinds of stones | for the different purposes; well property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Cutter | a careful workman | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Cutter | plenty of customers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient |
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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