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The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 46

After that he went back to the weaver’s house, and told him that the gold had been given him by the man who had won the race, and that the weaver might have it for his kindness to him.

Who acts: horse, man, weaver · What happens: go back, tell, give, win, have · To what, where: horse, gold, race · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, man, weaver), 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

caseoblnsubjadvmodcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctccparataxisiobjmarkdetnsubj:passauxaux:passccompiobjcasedetoblnsubjauxacl:relcldetobjpunctccmarkdetnsubjauxconjobjcasenmod:possoblcasenmodpunctrootAfterADPthatPRONhePRONwentVERBbackADVtoADPtheDETweaverNOUN’sPARThouseNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtoldVERBhimPRONthatSCONJtheDETgoldNOUNhadAUXbeenAUXgivenVERBhimPRONbyADPtheDETmanNOUNwhoPRONhadAUXwonVERBtheDETraceNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthatSCONJtheDETweaverNOUNmightAUXhaveVERBitPRONforADPhisPRONkindnessNOUNtoADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AfterafterADP_2 thatcase
2thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem4 wentobl
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 wentnsubj
4wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5backbackADV_4 wentadvmod
6totoADP_10 housecase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 weaverdet
8weaverweaverNOUNNumber=Sing10 housenmod:poss
9’s'sPART_8 weavercase
10househouseNOUNNumber=Sing4 wentobl
11,,PUNCT_13 toldpunct
12andandCCONJ_13 toldcc
13toldtellVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 wentparataxis
14himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 toldiobj
15thatthatSCONJ_20 givenmark
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 golddet
17goldgoldNOUNNumber=Sing20 givennsubj:pass
18hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 givenaux
19beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part20 givenaux:pass
20givengiveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass13 toldccomp
21himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 giveniobj
22bybyADP_24 mancase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 mandet
24manmanNOUNNumber=Sing20 givenobl
25whowhoPRONPronType=Rel27 wonnsubj
26hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 wonaux
27wonwinVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part24 manacl:relcl
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 racedet
29raceraceNOUNNumber=Sing27 wonobj
30,,PUNCT_36 havepunct
31andandCCONJ_36 havecc
32thatthatSCONJ_36 havemark
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 weaverdet
34weaverweaverNOUNNumber=Sing36 havensubj
35mightmightAUXVerbForm=Fin36 haveaux
36havehaveVERBVerbForm=Inf13 toldconj
37ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs36 haveobj
38forforADP_40 kindnesscase
39hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs40 kindnessnmod:poss
40kindnesskindnessNOUNNumber=Sing36 haveobl
41totoADP_42 himcase
42himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs40 kindnessnmod
43..PUNCT_4 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1go backpasthorseafter thatto the weaver's house resultvn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result
2tell speech: assertpasthorsevn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3givepast · perfect · passivethe manthe goldhorsevn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient he=Theme
4winpast · perfectthe manthe racevn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality
5havemightthe weavergoldfor horse's kindness to horsevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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