The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 90
At length a rich bishop died in the neighbourhood I was then in, and I heard he was interred with a great deal of jewels and rich robes upon him, all which I intended in a short time to be master of.
Who acts: rich bishop, I · What happens: die, be, hear, inter, intend, deal · To what, where: length, neighbourhood, bishop, jewels · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich bishop, I), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 died | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bishop | det |
| 4 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bishop | amod |
| 5 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 died | nsubj |
| 6 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 neighbourhood | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 neighbourhood | det |
| 9 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 died | obl |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 in | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 in | cop |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 in | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 9 neighbourhood | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 heard | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 heard | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 died | conj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 interred | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 interred | aux:pass |
| 20 | interred | inter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 heard | ccomp |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 deal | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 deal | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 deal | amod |
| 24 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 interred | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 jewels | case |
| 26 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 deal | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 robes | cc |
| 28 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 robes | amod |
| 29 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 jewels | conj |
| 30 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 robes | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 intended | punct |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 which | det |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 intended | nsubj |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 intended | nsubj |
| 36 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 heard | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 time | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 time | det |
| 39 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 time | amod |
| 40 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 intended | obl |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 master | mark |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 master | cop |
| 43 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 time | appos |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 master | case |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | a rich bishop | length | in the neighbourhood | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in neighbourhood=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is | past | I | the neighbourhood not said here | then | in property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | hear | past | I | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | inter | past · passive | bishop | with a great deal of jewels and rich robes upon Thief | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | intend | past | time | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | to-infinitive | of master | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | deal | jewels and rich robes upon Thief | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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