The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 86
When they began to grow up the king gave them a house of their own to live in, with servants and carriages, and everything they could possibly want.
Who acts: people, king, everything · What happens: begin, grow up, give, live in, want · To what, where: house, people
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 (people, king, everything), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gave | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 grow | mark |
| 5 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 grow | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 own | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 own | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 house | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 live | mark |
| 17 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 gave | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 live | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 servants | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 servants | case |
| 21 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 live | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 carriages | cc |
| 23 | carriages | carriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 servants | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 want | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 want | cc |
| 26 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 30 want | nsubj |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 want | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 want | aux |
| 29 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 30 want | advmod |
| 30 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 gave | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | people | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | grow up | to-infinitive | people not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give | past | the king | a house of people's own | people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient house=Theme | |||
| 4 | live in | to-infinitive | the king not said here | with servants and carriages | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with servant=Location | ||||
| 5 | want | could | everything | possibly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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