The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 80
He has earned them well, and more besides, for all the joy he has given us in having such a son and heir.’
Who acts: Bull · What happens: earn, give, have · To what, where: dollars, Bull, us, son
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 (Bull), 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 earned | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 earned | aux |
| 3 | earned | earn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 earned | obj |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 earned | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 besides | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 besides | cc |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 besides | amod |
| 9 | besides | beside | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 earned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 given | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 joy | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 joy | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 joy | det |
| 14 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 given | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 given | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 given | aux |
| 17 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 earned | conj |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 given | iobj |
| 19 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 20 having | mark |
| 20 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 given | advcl |
| 21 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 son | det:predet |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 son | det |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 having | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 heir | cc |
| 25 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 son | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 earned | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 earned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | earn | present · perfect | Bull | dollars = dollar | more besides obl; well property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | present · perfect · passive | Bull | us | for all joy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient we=Theme for joy=Asset | |||
| 3 | have | gerund | such son and heir | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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 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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