The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 43
Don Giovanni readily agreed to lend him what he wanted, and sent next day a huge waggon laden with sacks of gold.
Who acts: Don · What happens: agree, lend, want, send, lade · To what, where: Don, huge waggon
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 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | Giovanni | Giovanni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Don | flat |
| 3 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 4 agreed | advmod |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 lend | mark |
| 6 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 agreed | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lend | obj |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 wanted | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wanted | nsubj |
| 10 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lend | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sent | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sent | cc |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 agreed | conj |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 waggon | det |
| 17 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 waggon | amod |
| 18 | waggon | waggon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | obj |
| 19 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 waggon | acl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 sacks | case |
| 21 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 laden | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 gold | case |
| 23 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sacks | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | Don | readily property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lend not said to happen | to-infinitive | Don not said here | Don | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | want | past | Don | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 4 | send | participle | Don not said here | a huge waggon | day | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waggon=Theme | |||
| 5 | lade | participle | a huge waggon not said here | with sacks of gold | tree rules |
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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