The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 12
The peasant had the money with him, so he gave it to the clerk, and went home again with high hopes.
Who acts: peasant, man · What happens: have, give, go · To what, where: money, clerk
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 (peasant, man), 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 peasant | det |
| 2 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 money | det |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 money | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 gave | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 clerk | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 clerk | det |
| 15 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 19 | home | home | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 hopes | case |
| 22 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hopes | amod |
| 23 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 went | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the peasant | the money | with man | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | |||
| 2 | give | past | man | money | the clerk | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to clerk=Recipient | |||
| 3 | go | past | the peasant not said here | again | with high hopes; home property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with hope=Beneficiary |
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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