The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 78
To make a long story short, the smith got the quarter of a pound of gold, and the quarter of a pound of silver, and the quarter of a pound of copper, and gave them and the pattern crown to the prince.
Who acts: smith · What happens: make, get, give · To what, where: long story, quarter, quarters
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 (smith), 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 make | mark |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 story | amod |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 make | obj |
| 6 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 make | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 smith | det |
| 9 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 make | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 quarter | det |
| 12 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 pound | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pound | det |
| 15 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 quarter | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 gold | case |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pound | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 quarter | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 quarter | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 quarter | det |
| 21 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 pound | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pound | det |
| 24 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 quarter | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 silver | case |
| 26 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pound | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 quarter | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 quarter | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 quarter | det |
| 30 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 pound | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 pound | det |
| 33 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 quarter | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 copper | case |
| 35 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 pound | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 gave | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 gave | cc |
| 38 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 got | parataxis |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 gave | iobj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 crown | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 crown | det |
| 42 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 crown | compound |
| 43 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 gave | conj |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 prince | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 prince | det |
| 46 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 crown | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | to-infinitive | a long story | short property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset story=Product | ||||
| 2 | get | past | the smith | the quarter of a pound of gold | the quarter of a pound of silver obl; the quarter of a pound of copper obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer quarter=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | give | past | quarters = quarter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 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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