The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 81
The man agreed with this, and thanked the clerk for all he had done, and gave him two hundred dollars.
Who acts: man · What happens: agree, thank, do, give · To what, where: clerk, hundred dollars, man
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 agreed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thanked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thanked | cc |
| 8 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 clerk | det |
| 10 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thanked | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 thanked | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 done | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 done | aux |
| 15 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 all | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | iobj |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 hundred | compound |
| 21 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 dollars | nummod |
| 22 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gave | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the man | with this | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with this=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | the man not said here | the clerk | for all | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent clerk=Theme for all=Attribute | |||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | man | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | give | past | the man not said here | hundred dollars | man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=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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