The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 26

The very moment the fagot-maker and his wife reached home the lord of the manor sent them ten crowns, which he had owed them a long while, and which they never expected.

Who acts: moment, lord, makers · What happens: reach, send, owe, not expect · To what, where: makers, ten crowns

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moment, lord, makers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moment	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 moment	advmod
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reached	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 maker	det
5	fagot	fagot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 maker	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 fagot	punct
7	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reached	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wife	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 maker	conj
11	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	home	home	ADV	_	11 reached	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lord	det
14	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sent	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 manor	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 manor	det
17	manor	manor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lord	nmod
18	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 reached	parataxis
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sent	obj
20	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 crowns	nummod
21	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sent	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 owed	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 owed	nsubj:pass
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 owed	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 owed	aux
26	owed	owe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 crowns	acl:relcl
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 owed	obj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 while	det
29	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 while	amod
30	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 owed	obl:unmarked
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 expected	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 expected	cc
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 expected	obj
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 expected	nsubj
35	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	36 expected	advmod
36	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 reached	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	the moment			home property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	send	past	the lord of the manor	makers = maker			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination crown=Theme
3	owe	past · perfect · passive		ten crowns	while		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal they=Theme
4	not expect	past	makers = maker				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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 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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