The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 6
No one knows where they got the money to pay for everything, nor who paid it, for all this happened so very long ago.
Who acts: one, descendants, money, this · What happens: know, get, pay, happen · To what, where: money · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, descendants, money, this), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knows | nsubj |
| 3 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 got | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knows | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 money | det |
| 8 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 pay | mark |
| 10 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 got | xcomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 everything | case |
| 12 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 pay | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 paid | punct |
| 14 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 paid | cc |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 paid | nsubj |
| 16 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knows | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 paid | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 happened | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 happened | mark |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 happened | det:predet |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 happened | nsubj |
| 22 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 paid | conj |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 happened | advmod |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 long | advmod |
| 25 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 ago | advmod |
| 26 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 22 happened | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | get | past | descendants = descendant | the money | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pay | to-infinitive | the money not said here | for everything | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for everything=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pay | past | money | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset | |||||
| 5 | happen | past | this | ago property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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