The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 20

And so greatly did they prosper that no man in the town bought a shield except they had made it, till at length the shield-makers banded together as the saddlers had done, and resolved to slay them.

Who acts: shields, man · What happens: prosper, buy, make, band together, do, resolve · To what, where: shield, town, shield makers, saddlers, shields

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shields, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 prosper	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	6 prosper	advmod
3	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	6 prosper	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prosper	aux
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 prosper	nsubj
6	prosper	prosper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 bought	mark
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bought	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 town	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 town	det
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	nmod
13	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prosper	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 shield	det
15	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bought	obj
16	except	except	ADP	_	19 made	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 made	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 made	aux
19	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 bought	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 made	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 length	punct
22	till	till	ADP	_	24 length	case
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 length	case
24	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 made	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 makers	det
26	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 makers	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 shield	punct
28	makers	maker	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 length	nmod
29	banded	band	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 makers	acl
30	together	together	ADV	_	29 banded	advmod
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 done	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 saddlers	det
33	saddlers	saddler	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 done	nsubj:pass
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 done	aux
35	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 banded	advcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 resolved	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 resolved	cc
38	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bought	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 slay	mark
40	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 resolved	xcomp
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 slay	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 prosper	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	prosper	past · do-support	shields = shield			greatly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	buy	past	no man in the town	a shield			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shield=Theme
3	make	past · perfect	shields = shield	town	till length the shield makers		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
4	band together	participle		the shield makers not said here		together property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	do	past · perfect · passive		the saddlers			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
6	resolve	past	no man in the town not said here				tree rules
7	slay	to-infinitive	no man in the town not said here	shields = shield			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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