The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 63

The work went merrily on, and they talked gaily, and the young man told his friends of the payment promised him by the ogress if he had done her bidding.

Who acts: work, oxen, young man, friends, man, friend · What happens: go, talk, tell, promise, do, bid · To what, where: man, bidding · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (work, oxen, young man, friends), 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 work	det
2	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	5 on	advmod
5	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 talked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 talked	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 talked	nsubj
9	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
10	gaily	gaily	ADV	_	9 talked	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 friends	nmod:poss
18	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 promised	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 payment	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 payment	det
21	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 friends	nmod
22	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 told	ccomp
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 promised	iobj
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 ogress	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ogress	det
26	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 promised	obl
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 done	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 done	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 done	aux
30	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 promised	advcl
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 bidding	nmod:poss
32	bidding	bidding	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 done	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	the work				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk	past	oxen = ox			gaily property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	the young man				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	promise speech: promise	past	man's friends of the payment		man	by the ogress	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	do a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	man	friend's bidding			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality
6	bid		friend				nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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