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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 82

The next day some of the cattle were driven to market and sold, and with the money the old man was able to buy some of the fields and gardens round his house, and in a few months had grown the richest and most prosperous man in the whole village.

Who acts: old man · What happens: drive, sell, be, buy, grow · To what, where: some, market, richest man, whole village

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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

detamodobl:unmarkednsubj:passcasedetnmodaux:passcaseoblccconjpunctcccasedetobldetamodnsubjcopccompmarkxcompobjcasedetnmodccconjcasenmod:possoblpunctcccasedetamodoblauxconjdetamodccadvmodconjobjcasedetamodnmodpunctrootTheDETnextADJdayNOUNsomeDETofADPtheDETcattleNOUNwereAUXdrivenVERBtoADPmarketNOUNandCCONJsoldVERB,PUNCTandCCONJwithADPtheDETmoneyNOUNtheDEToldADJmanNOUNwasAUXableADJtoPARTbuyVERBsomeDETofADPtheDETfieldsNOUNandCCONJgardensNOUNroundADPhisPRONhouseNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJinADPaDETfewADJmonthsNOUNhadAUXgrownVERBtheDETrichestADJandCCONJmostADVprosperousADJmanNOUNinADPtheDETwholeADJvillageNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 daydet
2nextnextADJDegree=Pos3 dayamod
3daydayNOUNNumber=Sing9 drivenobl:unmarked
4somesomeDETPronType=Ind9 drivennsubj:pass
5ofofADP_7 cattlecase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 cattledet
7cattlecattleNOUNNumber=Plur4 somenmod
8werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 drivenaux:pass
9drivendriveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
10totoADP_11 marketcase
11marketmarketNOUNNumber=Sing9 drivenobl
12andandCCONJ_13 soldcc
13soldsellVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 drivenconj
14,,PUNCT_23 ablepunct
15andandCCONJ_23 ablecc
16withwithADP_18 moneycase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 moneydet
18moneymoneyNOUNNumber=Sing23 ableobl
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 mandet
20oldoldADJDegree=Pos21 manamod
21manmanNOUNNumber=Sing23 ablensubj
22wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 ablecop
23ableableADJDegree=Pos13 soldccomp
24totoPART_25 buymark
25buybuyVERBVerbForm=Inf23 ablexcomp
26somesomeDETPronType=Ind25 buyobj
27ofofADP_29 fieldscase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 fieldsdet
29fieldsfieldNOUNNumber=Plur26 somenmod
30andandCCONJ_31 gardenscc
31gardensgardenNOUNNumber=Plur29 fieldsconj
32roundroundADP_34 housecase
33hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs34 housenmod:poss
34househouseNOUNNumber=Sing25 buyobl
35,,PUNCT_42 grownpunct
36andandCCONJ_42 growncc
37ininADP_40 monthscase
38aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art40 monthsdet
39fewfewADJDegree=Pos40 monthsamod
40monthsmonthNOUNNumber=Plur42 grownobl
41hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin42 grownaux
42growngrowVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part9 drivenconj
43thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art48 mandet
44richestrichADJDegree=Sup48 manamod
45andandCCONJ_47 prosperouscc
46mostmostADVDegree=Sup47 prosperousadvmod
47prosperousprosperousADJDegree=Pos44 richestconj
48manmanNOUNNumber=Sing42 grownobj
49ininADP_52 villagecase
50thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art52 villagedet
51wholewholeADJDegree=Pos52 villageamod
52villagevillageNOUNNumber=Sing48 mannmod
53..PUNCT_9 drivenpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1drivepast · passivesomemarketdayvn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme to market=Trajectory
2sellpastvn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3ispastthe old manwith the money; able propertytree rules
4buyto-infinitivethe old man not said heresomeround man's housevn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme
5growpast · perfectthe richest manthe whole villagemonthvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme

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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