The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 57
‘I shall make shoes as once I did,’ replied he; and he got all the finest leather in the town and caused gilded clasps to be made for the shoes, till everyone flocked to buy, and all the shoemakers in the town were idle and banded together in anger to kill him.
Who acts: I, castle, everyone, shoemakers · What happens: make, do, reply, get, cause, gild · To what, where: shoes, finest leather, town, gilded clasps, anger, castle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, castle, everyone, shoemakers), 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 | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 did | mark |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 did | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 did | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 got | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 got | nsubj |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 replied | parataxis |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 leather | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 leather | det |
| 20 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 leather | amod |
| 21 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 got | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 town | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 town | det |
| 24 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leather | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 caused | cc |
| 26 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 got | conj |
| 27 | gilded | gild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 clasps | amod |
| 28 | clasps | clasp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 caused | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 made | mark |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 made | aux:pass |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 clasps | acl |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 shoes | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 shoes | det |
| 34 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 made | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 flocked | punct |
| 36 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 38 flocked | mark |
| 37 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 38 flocked | nsubj |
| 38 | flocked | flock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 caused | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 buy | mark |
| 40 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 flocked | xcomp |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 idle | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 idle | cc |
| 43 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 shoemakers | det:predet |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 shoemakers | det |
| 45 | shoemakers | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 idle | nsubj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 town | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 town | det |
| 48 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 shoemakers | nmod |
| 49 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 idle | cop |
| 50 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 got | conj |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 banded | cc |
| 52 | banded | band | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 50 idle | conj |
| 53 | together | together | ADV | _ | 52 banded | advmod |
| 54 | in | in | ADP | _ | 55 anger | case |
| 55 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 banded | obl |
| 56 | to | to | PART | _ | 57 kill | mark |
| 57 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 banded | advcl |
| 58 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 kill | obj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | shall | I | shoes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Product | ||||
| 2 | do | past | I | once property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | castle | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | get | past | castle | all finest leather | the town | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leather=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | cause | past | castle not said here | gilded clasps | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition clasp=Patient | ||||
| 6 | gild | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | make | to-infinitive · passive | castle not said here | gilded clasps not said here | for the shoes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: for shoe=Asset | |||
| 8 | flock | past | everyone | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | buy | to-infinitive | everyone not said here | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | is | past | all shoemakers in the town | idle property | tree rules | ||||
| 11 | band together | participle | all shoemakers in the town not said here | anger | together property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||
| 12 | kill | to-infinitive | all shoemakers in the town not said here | castle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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