The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 46

But Kari said she thought the priest was such a good man at preaching that she got so much benefit from what he said, and at last she got leave.

Who acts: Kari, priest · What happens: say, think, be, preach, get, leave · To what, where: good man, much benefit, last · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kari, priest), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	Kari	Kari	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 priest	det
7	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 man	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 man	cop
9	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 man	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	ccomp
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 preaching	case
14	preaching	preach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 man	nmod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 got	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 got	nsubj
17	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 preaching	ccomp
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 benefit	amod
20	benefit	benefit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 got	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 what	case
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 benefit	nmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 what	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 got	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 got	cc
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 last	case
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 got	obl
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 got	nsubj
30	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
31	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 got	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Kari			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	think speech: other	past	Kari			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the priest	such good man		tree rules
4	preach speech: other	gerund				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	get	past	Kari	much benefit		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent benefit=Theme from what=Source
6	say speech: assert	past	priest			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	get	past	Kari		last	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	leave	infinitive	Kari not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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 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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