The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 53
The clothes he had on him were as ragged as you please, but he had his crowns safe under his old cloak.
Who acts: prince, clothes · What happens: have, be, crown · To what, where: clothes, crowns
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, clothes), 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 clothes | det |
| 2 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 9 ragged | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 clothes | acl:relcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | obl |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ragged | cop |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 ragged | advmod |
| 9 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 ragged | obl |
| 12 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 9 ragged | discourse |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ragged | parataxis |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 crowns | nmod:poss |
| 18 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 had | obj |
| 19 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 had | xcomp |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 cloak | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cloak | amod |
| 23 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 safe | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | prince | the clothes not said here | on thing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | the clothes | as you; ragged property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | prince | prince's crowns | safe property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Patient | |||
| 4 | crown | prince | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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