The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 27
Soon he became known as ‘The Maker of Gold Shoes,’ and prospered so greatly, that as long as one could be bought from him not a shoe was purchased from the shoemakers of the town.
What happens: know, prosper, buy, not purchase · To what, where: straightway, one, shoe, shoemakers
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: 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 known | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 known | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | aux:pass |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 Maker | case |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Maker | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Maker | det |
| 8 | Maker | Maker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 known | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Shoes | case |
| 10 | Gold | Gold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Shoes | compound |
| 11 | Shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Maker | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Maker | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Maker | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 prospered | cc |
| 15 | prospered | prosper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | conj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 greatly | advmod |
| 17 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 15 prospered | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 long | punct |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 long | nsubj |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 long | advmod |
| 21 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 prospered | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 bought | mark |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 bought | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 bought | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 bought | aux:pass |
| 26 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 long | advcl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bought | obl |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 purchased | advmod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 shoe | det |
| 31 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 purchased | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 purchased | aux:pass |
| 33 | purchased | purchase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 bought | advcl |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 shoemakers | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 shoemakers | det |
| 36 | shoemakers | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 purchased | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 town | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 town | det |
| 39 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 shoemakers | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | straightway | as the Maker of Gold Shoes; soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as maker=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | prosper | past | greatly, long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | buy | could · passive | one | from straightway | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from he=Source | ||||
| 4 | not purchase | past · passive | a shoe | the shoemakers of the town | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from shoemaker=Source |
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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