The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 110
He then summoned the host, gave him a large sum for his own life, and paid the dead man’s debt as well, besides paying him for burying the body, which the murderer now promised to attend to.
Who acts: prince, murderer · What happens: summon, give, pay, bury, promise, attend · To what, where: host, large sum, prince, debt, body
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, murderer), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 summoned | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 summoned | advmod |
| 3 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 host | det |
| 5 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 summoned | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 summoned | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sum | det |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sum | amod |
| 11 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 life | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 life | amod |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sum | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 paid | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 paid | cc |
| 18 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 summoned | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 debt | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 man | case |
| 23 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 paid | obj |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 18 paid | advmod |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 as | fixed |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 paying | punct |
| 27 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 28 paying | mark |
| 28 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 paid | advcl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 paying | obj |
| 30 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 burying | mark |
| 31 | burying | bury | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 paying | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 body | det |
| 33 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 burying | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 promised | punct |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 promised | obj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 murderer | det |
| 37 | murderer | murderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 promised | nsubj |
| 38 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 promised | advmod |
| 39 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 body | acl:relcl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 attend | mark |
| 41 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 promised | xcomp |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 attend | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past | prince | the host | then | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Recipient | |||
| 2 | give | past | prince not said here | a large sum | prince | for prince's own life | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sum=Theme for life=Asset | ||
| 3 | pay | past | prince not said here | the dead man's debt | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset | ||||
| 4 | pay | gerund | prince not said here | prince | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset | ||||
| 5 | bury | gerund | prince not said here | the body | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme | ||||
| 6 | promise speech: promise | past | the murderer | the body | now | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent which=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 7 | attend not said to happen | to-infinitive | the murderer not said here | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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