The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 27

So the merchant set out and reached the town as quickly as possible, but only to find that his former companions, believing him to be dead, had divided between them the goods which the ship had brought; and after six months of trouble and expense he found himself as poor as when he started, having been able to recover only just enough to pay the cost of his journey.

Who acts: merchant, former companions · What happens: set out, reach, find, believe, be, divide · To what, where: town, merchant, goods, cost, journey · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, former companions), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 set	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 merchant	det
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 set	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 reached	cc
7	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 town	det
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reached	obj
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 quickly	advmod
11	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	7 reached	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 possible	mark
13	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 quickly	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 find	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 find	cc
16	only	only	ADV	_	18 find	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 find	mark
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 set	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 believing	mark
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 companions	nmod:poss
21	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 companions	amod
22	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 believing	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 believing	punct
24	believing	believe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 find	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 believing	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	28 dead	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 dead	cop
28	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 believing	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 divided	punct
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 divided	aux
31	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 find	advcl
32	between	between	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 divided	obl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 goods	det
35	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	31 divided	obj
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 brought	nsubj:pass
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 ship	det
38	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 brought	nsubj:pass
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 brought	aux
40	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 goods	acl:relcl
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 found	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 months	cc
43	after	after	ADP	_	45 months	case
44	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 months	nummod
45	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 found	obl:unmarked
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 trouble	case
47	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 found	obl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 expense	cc
49	expense	expense	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 trouble	conj
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 found	nsubj
51	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	conj
52	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	51 found	obj
53	as	as	ADV	_	54 poor	advmod
54	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 found	xcomp
55	as	as	SCONJ	_	58 started	mark
56	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	58 started	advmod
57	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 started	nsubj
58	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 poor	advcl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 able	punct
60	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	62 able	nsubj
61	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	62 able	cop
62	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 found	ccomp
63	to	to	PART	_	64 recover	mark
64	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 able	xcomp
65	only	only	ADV	_	67 enough	advmod
66	just	just	ADV	_	67 enough	advmod
67	enough	enough	ADV	_	64 recover	advmod
68	to	to	PART	_	69 pay	mark
69	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 recover	advcl
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 cost	det
71	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 pay	obj
72	of	of	ADP	_	74 journey	case
73	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	74 journey	nmod:poss
74	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 cost	nmod
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	set out	past	the merchant				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reach	past	the merchant not said here	the town		quickly property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=Theme
3	find	to-infinitive	the merchant not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	believe	gerund	merchant's former companions	merchant			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	is	to-infinitive				dead property	tree rules
6	divide	past · perfect	the merchant not said here	the goods		between companions = companion	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme
7	bring	past · perfect · passive		the goods			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
8	find	past	merchant	merchant	month	of trouble and expense; poor property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
9	start	past	merchant				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
10	have	gerund					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
11	is	participle				able property	tree rules
12	recover	to-infinitive				enough property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
13	pay	to-infinitive		the cost of merchant's journey			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Asset
14	cost			merchant's journey			nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient
15	journey		merchant				nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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