The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 142
Next day the king gave the first Simon carpenters, masons, smiths and labourers, with great stores of iron, mortar, and the like, and Simon began to build.
Who acts: king, Simon · What happens: give, begin, build · To what, where: first Simon carpenters
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Simon), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 carpenters | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 carpenters | amod |
| 8 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 carpenters | compound |
| 9 | carpenters | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gave | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 masons | punct |
| 11 | masons | mason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carpenters | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 smiths | punct |
| 13 | smiths | smith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carpenters | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 labourers | cc |
| 15 | labourers | labourer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carpenters | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stores | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 stores | case |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stores | amod |
| 19 | stores | store | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carpenters | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 iron | case |
| 21 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stores | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mortar | punct |
| 23 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 iron | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 like | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 like | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 like | det |
| 27 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gave | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 began | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 began | cc |
| 30 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 began | nsubj |
| 31 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 build | mark |
| 33 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 began | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the king | the first Simon carpenters and masons and smiths and labourers and great stores of iron and mortar | day | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carpenter=Theme | |||
| 2 | begin | past | Simon | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | build | to-infinitive | Simon not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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