The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 73
So he was received with all honor, and given a special house of his own to live in.
What happens: receive, give, live in · To what, where: messenger, special house
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 received | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 received | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 received | aux:pass |
| 4 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 honor | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 honor | det |
| 7 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 received | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 given | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 given | cc |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 received | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 12 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 house | amod |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 given | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 own | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 own | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 house | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 live | mark |
| 18 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 house | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 live | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past · passive | messenger | with all honor | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | a special house of messenger's own | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||||
| 3 | live in | to-infinitive | a special house of messenger's own not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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