The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 111
The King was delighted that at least one good workman had been found, and gave him as much money as ever he wanted.
Who acts: King, tailor · What happens: be, find, give, want · To what, where: one good workman, much money, tailor
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, tailor), 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 | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 found | mark |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 least | case |
| 7 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 one | nmod |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 workman | nummod |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 workman | amod |
| 10 | workman | workman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 found | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 found | aux:pass |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 delighted | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gave | cc |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | iobj |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 much | advmod |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 money | amod |
| 20 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obj |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 wanted | mark |
| 22 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 wanted | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wanted | nsubj |
| 24 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 gave | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | past · perfect · passive | one good workman | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | past | the King not said here | much money | tailor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient money=Theme | |||
| 4 | want | past | tailor | ever | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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