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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 went | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 weaver | det |
| 8 | weaver | weaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 weaver | case |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | iobj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 given | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gold | det |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 given | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 given | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 given | aux:pass |
| 20 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 told | ccomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 given | iobj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 man | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 given | obl |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 won | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 won | aux |
| 27 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 man | acl:relcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 race | det |
| 29 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 won | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 have | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 have | cc |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 have | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 weaver | det |
| 34 | weaver | weaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 have | nsubj |
| 35 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 have | aux |
| 36 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 told | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 have | obj |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 kindness | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 40 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 have | obl |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 him | case |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 kindness | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | horse | after that | to the weaver's house result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | horse | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect · passive | the man | the gold | horse | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient he=Theme | |||
| 4 | win | past · perfect | the man | the race | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | have | might | the weaver | gold | for horse's kindness to horse | vn 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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