The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 88
The men were pleased with the idea, and handed him the staff.
Who acts: men · What happens: be, hand · To what, where: staff, man
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | cop |
| 4 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 idea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 idea | det |
| 7 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pleased | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 handed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 handed | cc |
| 10 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 handed | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 staff | det |
| 13 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 handed | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the men | with the idea; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hand | past | the men not said here | the staff | man | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination staff=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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