The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 35

‘Denis is a good workman, as you know very well,’ answered Tephany, red with anger, ‘and he puts by money too, and soon he will be able to take a farm for himself.’

Who acts: Denis, you, good workman, workman · What happens: be, know, answer, put, take · To what, where: good workman, Tephany, farm

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Denis, you, good workman, workman), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 workman	punct
2	Denis	Denis	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 workman	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 workman	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 workman	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 workman	amod
6	workman	workman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 answered	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 know	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
10	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 workman	parataxis
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 well	advmod
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 know	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 workman	punct
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 answered	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 red	punct
18	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 answered	parataxis
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 anger	case
20	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 red	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ‘	punct
22	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 anger	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 puts	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 puts	nsubj
25	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 red	conj
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 money	case
27	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 puts	obl
28	too	too	ADV	_	25 puts	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 able	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 able	cc
31	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 able	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 able	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 able	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 able	cop
35	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 answered	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 take	mark
37	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 able	xcomp
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 farm	det
39	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 take	obj
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 himself	case
41	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 take	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Denis	a good workman			tree rules
2	know	present	you			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	answer speech: assert	past	a good workman		Tephany		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent tephany=Eventuality
4	put	present	workman			by money	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by money=Destination
5	is	future	workman			able, soon property	tree rules
6	take	to-infinitive	workman not said here	a farm		for workman	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent farm=Theme for himself=Beneficiary

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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