The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 100
Much was made of Esben and his brothers, and these now thanked him for all that he had done for them.
Who acts: these, Red · What happens: make, thank, do · To what, where: Much, Red
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (these, Red), 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 | Much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Esben | case |
| 5 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 brothers | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Esben | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thanked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thanked | cc |
| 11 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 thanked | nsubj |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 thanked | advmod |
| 13 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thanked | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 all | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 thanked | obl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 done | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 done | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 done | aux |
| 20 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 thanked | advcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 done | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | Much | of Esben and Red's brothers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | these | Red | now | for all | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for all=Attribute | ||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | Red | for brothers = brother | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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