The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 78

Only a few days after this the merchant heard the news that all his finest ships, laden with the richest merchandise, had been sunk in a storm, and he was left a beggar.

Who acts: merchant · What happens: hear, lade, sink, leave · To what, where: news, finest ships, storm, merchant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	4 days	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 days	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 heard	obl:unmarked
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 days	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 merchant	det
8	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 news	det
11	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	obj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 sunk	mark
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 ships	det:predet
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 ships	nmod:poss
15	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 ships	amod
16	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sunk	nsubj:pass
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 laden	punct
18	laden	lade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 ships	acl
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 merchandise	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 merchandise	det
21	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 merchandise	amod
22	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 laden	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ships	punct
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sunk	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 sunk	aux:pass
26	sunk	sink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 heard	ccomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 storm	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 storm	det
29	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sunk	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 left	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 left	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 left	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 left	aux:pass
34	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 heard	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 beggar	det
36	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 left	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the merchant	the news		day		tree rules
2	lade	participle		merchant's finest ships not said here			with the richest merchandise	tree rules
3	sink	past · perfect · passive		merchant's finest ships	a storm			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	leave	past · passive		merchant				vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme beggar=Attribute

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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