The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 69
If he spent a shilling he got back a florin-such an excellent merchant he was till he died.
Who acts: merchant, florin · What happens: spend, get back, merchant, be · To what, where: shilling, excellent merchant
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, florin), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 spent | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spent | nsubj |
| 3 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shilling | det |
| 5 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spent | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spent | parataxis |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 got | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 merchant | det |
| 10 | florin | florin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 merchant | nsubj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 florin | punct |
| 12 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 merchant | det:predet |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 merchant | det |
| 14 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 merchant | amod |
| 15 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 died | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 died | cop |
| 18 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 20 died | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 died | nsubj |
| 20 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 merchant | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | merchant | a shilling | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shilling=Asset | ||||
| 2 | get back | past | merchant | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | merchant | florin | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | merchant | a excellent merchant not said here | die property | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/4/69/