The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 28

Then the poor man told his tale, and once more judgment was given in his favour, while twelve hundred pounds was ordered to be paid him.

Who acts: poor man, hundred pounds, man · What happens: tell, give, order, pay, favour · To what, where: tale, more judgment, favour, hundred pounds, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man, hundred pounds, man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tale	nmod:poss
7	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 given	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 given	cc
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 more	advmod
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 judgment	amod
12	judgment	judgment	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 given	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 given	aux:pass
14	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 told	ccomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 favour	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 favour	nmod:poss
17	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 given	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ordered	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 ordered	mark
20	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 hundred	compound
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 pounds	nummod
22	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 ordered	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 ordered	aux:pass
24	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 given	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	27 paid	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 paid	aux:pass
27	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 ordered	xcomp
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 paid	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the poor man	man's tale		then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient clause=Topic
2	give	past · passive		more judgment	man's favour		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	order	past · passive		hundred pounds			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	pay not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	hundred pounds not said here	man			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: he=Asset
5	tell		man				nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
6	favour		man				nom favour «feeling 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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