The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 24

He was an honest man, and he thought that he owed some of his wealth to the man from whom he had bought the kettle.

Who acts: Jimmu · What happens: be, think, owe, buy · To what, where: honest man, some, man, kettle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jimmu), 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	5 man	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 man	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thought	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 man	acl:relcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 owed	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 owed	nsubj
12	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thought	ccomp
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 owed	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 wealth	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wealth	nmod:poss
16	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 some	nmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 man	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 owed	obl
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 whom	case
21	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 man	nmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bought	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 bought	aux
24	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 whom	acl:relcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 kettle	det
26	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bought	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	past	Jimmu	a honest man		tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	Jimmu	a honest man not said here		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent man=Attribute clause=Theme
3	owe	past	Jimmu	some	the man	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent some=Theme to man=Goal
4	buy	past · perfect	Jimmu	the kettle		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kettle=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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