The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 3
The men who passed him were tall and strong, and their clothes were magnificent.
Who acts: men, clothes · What happens: pass, be · To what, where: him
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 (men, clothes), 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 | 2 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tall | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 men | acl:relcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 passed | obj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tall | cop |
| 7 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 strong | cc |
| 9 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tall | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 magnificent | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 magnificent | cc |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 15 magnificent | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 magnificent | cop |
| 15 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tall | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the men | him = he | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the men | tall property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the men not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | men's clothes | magnificent property | tree rules |
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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