The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 26

However, while in England I made great profit by showing my cattle to persons of quality and others; and before I began my second voyage I sold them for 600_l_.

Who acts: I, my · What happens: make, show, begin, sell, voyage · To what, where: great profit, England, cattle, persons, second voyage

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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	However	however	ADV	_	7 made	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 England	mark
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 England	case
5	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 made	nsubj
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 profit	amod
9	profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obj
10	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 showing	mark
11	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 made	advcl
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cattle	nmod:poss
13	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 showing	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 persons	case
15	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 showing	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 quality	case
17	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 persons	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 others	cc
19	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 quality	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 began	cc
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	24 began	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 began	nsubj
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	conj
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 voyage	nmod:poss
26	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 voyage	amod
27	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 began	obj
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 sold	nsubj
29	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 voyage	acl:relcl
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sold	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 600	case
32	600	600	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 sold	obl
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	34 l	punct
34	l	l	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 began	obl
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	I	great profit		England	however property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent profit=Product
2	show	gerund	I not said here	my cattle	persons of quality and others			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cattle=Topic to person=Recipient
3	begin	past	I	my second voyage			l obl	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voyage=Eventuality
4	sell	past	I	cattle			for 600	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Theme for 600=Asset
5	voyage		my					nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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