The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 79

At night he came back, and he had a still larger sack of money with him than the attorney had brought; it must have been at least six bushels, and he set it down on the bench.

Who acts: bailiff, money · What happens: come back, have, bring, be, set down · To what, where: larger sack, attorney, six bushels, money, bench

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bailiff, money), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 night	case
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sack	det
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 larger	advmod
12	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 sack	amod
13	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 money	case
15	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sack	nmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 money	nmod
18	than	than	SCONJ	_	22 brought	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 attorney	det
20	attorney	attorney	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brought	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 brought	aux
22	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 had	advcl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 bushels	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bushels	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 bushels	aux
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 bushels	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 bushels	cop
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 least	case
29	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 six	nmod
30	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 bushels	nummod
31	bushels	bushel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 set	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 set	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 set	nsubj
35	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 set	obj
37	down	down	ADP	_	35 set	compound:prt
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 bench	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 bench	det
40	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 set	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come back	past	bailiff			night	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	bailiff	a larger sack of money with attorney			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Patient
3	bring	past · perfect · passive		the attorney			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
4	is a	must · perfect	money	six bushels			tree rules
5	set down	past	bailiff	money	the bench		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on bench=Destination

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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