The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 54
To take care of these animals the merchant hired a little army of men; and the troop made a great show as they travelled along.
Who acts: merchant, troop, animals · What happens: take, hire, make, travel · To what, where: care, little army, great show
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, troop, animals), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 take | mark |
| 2 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hired | advcl |
| 3 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 animals | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 animals | det |
| 6 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 take | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 merchant | det |
| 8 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hired | nsubj |
| 9 | hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 army | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 army | amod |
| 12 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hired | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 army | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 made | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 troop | det |
| 18 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hired | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 show | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 show | amod |
| 22 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 travelled | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 travelled | nsubj |
| 25 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | advcl |
| 26 | along | along | ADV | _ | 25 travelled | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | to-infinitive | the merchant not said here | care | of this animals | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of animal=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | hire | past | the merchant | a little army of men | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | the troop | a great show | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset show=Product | ||||
| 4 | travel | past | animals = animal | along property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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 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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