The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 21
So he gave the clerk the third hundred dollars for books, and a cask of good old ale for Peter.
Who acts: man · What happens: give · To what, where: 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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 clerk | det |
| 5 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dollars | det |
| 7 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 dollars | amod |
| 8 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 dollars | nummod |
| 9 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 books | case |
| 11 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dollars | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cask | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cask | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cask | det |
| 15 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 ale | case |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ale | amod |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ale | amod |
| 19 | ale | ale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cask | nmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 Peter | case |
| 21 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 ale | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | man | the clerk | a cask of good old ale for Peter obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent clerk=Recipient dollar=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 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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