The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 120

Then he hung up a sign with, “Labakan, Tailor,” over his door, and sat down to mend his own torn clothes with the very needle which had been in the ivory box.

Who acts: master, needle · What happens: hang up, sit down, mend, tear, be · To what, where: sign, door, own torn clothes, ivory box

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, needle), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 hung	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hung	nsubj
3	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 hung	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sign	det
6	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hung	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 Labakan	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Labakan	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 Labakan	punct
10	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sign	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Tailor	punct
12	Tailor	Tailor	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Labakan	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Labakan	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 Labakan	punct
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 door	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 door	nmod:poss
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hung	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sat	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sat	cc
20	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hung	conj
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 sat	compound:prt
22	to	to	PART	_	23 mend	mark
23	mend	mend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sat	advcl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 clothes	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 clothes	amod
26	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 clothes	amod
27	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	23 mend	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 needle	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 needle	det
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 needle	advmod
31	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mend	obl
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 box	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 box	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 box	cop
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 box	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 box	det
37	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 box	compound
38	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 needle	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang up	past	master	a sign	master's door	then	with Labakan	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sign=Patient with labakan=Instrument
2	sit down	past	master not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mend	to-infinitive	master not said here	master's own torn clothes			with the needle	tree rules
4	tear	participle						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past · perfect	the needle		the ivory box			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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