The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 36
And Don Giovanni followed him, and an agreement was drawn up by which the house was to be sold at once, and a large sum of money paid down in eight days.
Who acts: Don · What happens: follow, draw up, sell, pay down, sum · To what, where: mad, agreement, house, money
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Don), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 followed | cc |
| 2 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | Giovanni | Giovanni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Don | flat |
| 4 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 followed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drawn | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drawn | cc |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 agreement | det |
| 9 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 drawn | aux:pass |
| 11 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 followed | parataxis |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 drawn | compound:prt |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 sold | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sold | aux:pass |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 sold | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sold | aux:pass |
| 20 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 drawn | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 once | case |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 sold | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sum | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 sum | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 sum | det |
| 26 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sum | amod |
| 27 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sold | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 money | case |
| 29 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sum | nmod |
| 30 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 money | acl |
| 31 | down | down | ADP | _ | 30 paid | compound:prt |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 days | case |
| 33 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 days | nummod |
| 34 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 paid | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Don | mad | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | draw up | past · passive | a agreement | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sell | past · passive | the house | a large sum of money obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme at once=Asset | ||||
| 4 | pay down | participle | money not said here | day | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | sum | money | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=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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