The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 91
They were well received, and had so much attention given to them, that the old people were quite put out by it.
What happens: receive, have, give, put out · To what, where: people, much attention, old people
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 received | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 received | aux:pass |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 received | advmod |
| 4 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 had | cc |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 received | conj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 attention | amod |
| 10 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 11 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 attention | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 given | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 put | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 people | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 people | amod |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 put | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 put | aux:pass |
| 20 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 21 put | advmod |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 received | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 put | compound:prt |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 put | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past · passive | people | well property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | much attention | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient | |||||
| 3 | give | participle | much attention not said here | people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | put out | past · passive | the old people | by attention | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme by it=Destination |
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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