The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 8
Six hundred servants were appointed me, and three hundred tailors made me a suit of clothes.
Who acts: hundred tailors · What happens: appoint, make · To what, where: hundred servants, suit, me
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundred tailors), 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 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 servants | nummod |
| 3 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 appointed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appointed | aux:pass |
| 5 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 appointed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 hundred | compound |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 tailors | nummod |
| 11 | tailors | tailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 made | nsubj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appointed | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 made | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 suit | det |
| 15 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 clothes | case |
| 17 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 15 suit | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | past · passive | hundred servants | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme i=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | make | past | hundred tailors | a suit of clothes | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary suit=Product |
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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