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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 driven | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cattle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cattle | det |
| 7 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 some | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 driven | aux:pass |
| 9 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 market | case |
| 11 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 driven | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sold | cc |
| 13 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 driven | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 able | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 able | cc |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 money | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 money | det |
| 18 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 able | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 able | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 able | cop |
| 23 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sold | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 buy | mark |
| 25 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 able | xcomp |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 buy | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 fields | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 fields | det |
| 29 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 some | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 gardens | cc |
| 31 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 fields | conj |
| 32 | round | round | ADP | _ | 34 house | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 house | nmod:poss |
| 34 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 buy | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 grown | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 grown | cc |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 months | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 months | det |
| 39 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 months | amod |
| 40 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 grown | obl |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 grown | aux |
| 42 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 driven | conj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 man | det |
| 44 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 48 man | amod |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 prosperous | cc |
| 46 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 47 prosperous | advmod |
| 47 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 richest | conj |
| 48 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 grown | obj |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 village | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 village | det |
| 51 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 village | amod |
| 52 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 man | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 driven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past · passive | some | market | day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme to market=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | sell | past | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | the old man | with the money; able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | buy | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | some | round man's house | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | |||
| 5 | grow | past · perfect | the richest man | the whole village | month | vn 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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