The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 119

He sold his little box to a jeweller for a good price, bought a house and opened a workshop.

Who acts: master · What happens: sell, buy, open · To what, where: little box, jeweller, house, workshop

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sold	nsubj
2	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 box	nmod:poss
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 box	amod
5	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sold	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 jeweller	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 jeweller	det
8	jeweller	jeweller	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sold	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 price	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 price	det
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 price	amod
12	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sold	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bought	punct
14	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sold	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 house	det
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bought	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 opened	cc
18	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 bought	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 workshop	det
20	workshop	workshop	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 opened	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sell	past	master	master's little box	a jeweller	for a good price	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent box=Theme to jeweller=Recipient for price=Asset
2	buy	past		a house			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
3	open	past		a workshop			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location workshop=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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