The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 114
At length they decided to sell him, and bade a child who was passing send them a certain tradesman called Jimmu.
Who acts: walls, child · What happens: decide, sell, pass, send, call · To what, where: bade, length, man, walls, certain tradesman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walls, child), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 decided | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 decided | nsubj |
| 4 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sell | mark |
| 6 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 decided | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sell | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bade | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bade | cc |
| 10 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 decided | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 child | det |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 send | nsubj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 passing | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 passing | aux |
| 15 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 child | acl:relcl |
| 16 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 bade | acl:relcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 send | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tradesman | det |
| 19 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tradesman | amod |
| 20 | tradesman | tradesman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 send | obj |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 tradesman | acl |
| 22 | Jimmu | Jimmu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 called | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | walls = wall | bade | length | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | sell not said to happen | to-infinitive | walls = wall not said here | man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass | past · progressive | a child | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | send | infinitive | a child | walls = wall | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination tradesman=Theme | ||||
| 5 | call | participle | a certain tradesman not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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