The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 126

Before long the whole town went to him, for his work was both so good and so cheap.

Who acts: work, Labakan · What happens: long, go, be, work · To what, where: whole town, Labakan

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 (work, 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	2 long	mark
2	long	long	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 went	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 town	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 town	amod
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 long	obj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 good	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 good	mark
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 work	nmod:poss
12	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 good	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 good	cop
14	both	both	ADV	_	16 good	advmod
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 good	advmod
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 went	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cheap	cc
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 cheap	advmod
19	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 good	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	long	gerund		the whole town			tree rules
2	go	past			Labakan		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
3	is	past	Labakan's work			both, good property	tree rules
4	be		Labakan's work not said here				tree rules
5	work		Labakan				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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