The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 1

There was a man who had fine houses, both in town and country, a deal of silver and gold plate, embroidered furniture, and coaches gilded all over with gold.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, have, embroider, gild, deal · To what, where: coaches, fine houses, silver

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 man	acl:relcl
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 houses	amod
8	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 town	punct
10	both	both	CCONJ	_	12 town	cc:preconj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 town	case
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 houses	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 country	cc
14	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 town	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 deal	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 deal	det
17	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 town	appos
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 silver	case
19	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 deal	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 plate	cc
21	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 plate	compound
22	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 silver	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 furniture	punct
24	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 furniture	amod
25	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 houses	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 coaches	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 coaches	cc
28	coaches	coach	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 was	obl
29	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 coaches	acl
30	all	all	ADV	_	31 over	advmod
31	over	over	ADV	_	29 gilded	advmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 gold	case
33	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gilded	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a man	coaches	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a man	fine houses both town and country and embroidered furniture			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient
3	embroider	participle					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	gild	participle		coaches not said here		with gold; over property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme
5	deal			silver and gold plate			nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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