The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 29
Things went on like this for some time, and the master put up with Labakan’s absurdities because he was, on the whole, a good fellow and a clever workman.
Who acts: Things, master, Labakan · What happens: go on, put up, be
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Things, master, Labakan), 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 | Things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 put | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 master | det |
| 12 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | nsubj |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 put | compound:prt |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 absurdities | case |
| 16 | Labakan | Labakan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 absurdities | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Labakan | case |
| 18 | absurdities | absurdity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 put | obl |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 25 whole | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 whole | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 whole | cop |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 whole | punct |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 whole | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 whole | det |
| 25 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 put | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fellow | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 fellow | det |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fellow | amod |
| 29 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 whole | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 workman | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 workman | det |
| 32 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 workman | amod |
| 33 | workman | workman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fellow | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | Things | time | like this | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | put up | past | the master | with Labakan's absurdities | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Labakan | a good fellow and a clever workman obl; whole property | tree rules |
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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