The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 12
As he passed through the town of Vannes he stopped at a tailor’s shop, and bought a beautiful costume of brown velvet and a white horse, which he paid for with a handful of gold that he had picked up in the corridor of the castle of Kerglas.
Who acts: Peronnik, white horse · What happens: pass, stop, buy, pay, pick up · To what, where: town, shop, beautiful costume, Peronnik, corridor
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peronnik, white horse), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 passed | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Vannes | case |
| 8 | Vannes | Vannes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 town | nmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stopped | nsubj |
| 10 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 town | acl:relcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 shop | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tailor | det |
| 13 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shop | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 tailor | case |
| 15 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stopped | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bought | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bought | cc |
| 18 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 costume | det |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 costume | amod |
| 21 | costume | costume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bought | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 velvet | case |
| 23 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 velvet | amod |
| 24 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 costume | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 horse | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 horse | det |
| 27 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 horse | amod |
| 28 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 velvet | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 paid | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 paid | nsubj |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 paid | nsubj |
| 32 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 horse | acl:relcl |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 handful | case |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 handful | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 handful | det |
| 36 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 paid | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 gold | case |
| 38 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 handful | nmod |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 picked | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 picked | aux |
| 42 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 paid | advcl |
| 43 | up | up | ADP | _ | 42 picked | compound:prt |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 corridor | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 corridor | det |
| 46 | corridor | corridor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 picked | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 castle | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 castle | det |
| 49 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 corridor | nmod |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 Kerglas | case |
| 51 | Kerglas | Kerglas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 castle | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Peronnik | the town of Vannes | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through town=Location | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | Peronnik | the town of Vannes not said here | a tailor's shop | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector town=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | buy | past | Peronnik not said here | a beautiful costume of brown velvet and a white horse | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent costume=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pay | past | a white horse | for a handful of gold | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for handful=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pick up | past · perfect · passive | Peronnik | the corridor of the castle of Kerglas | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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