The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 35
And he gave World’s-weight a cuff, because he was old enough to know better.
Who acts: master · What happens: give, be, know · To what, where: World’s weight
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gave | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | World’s | World's | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 weight | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 World’s | punct |
| 6 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cuff | det |
| 8 | cuff | cuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 old | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 old | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 old | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 old | cop |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gave | conj |
| 14 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 13 old | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 know | mark |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 old | advcl |
| 17 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 know | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | master | World’s weight | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent weight=Recipient cuff=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | master | enough, old property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | to-infinitive | master not said here | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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