The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 119
This did for some time, as there were found a few reckless fellows, who wished to earn this good payment.
Who acts: This, few reckless fellows · What happens: do, find, wish, earn · To what, where: few reckless fellows, good payment
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, few reckless fellows), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 found | mark |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 found | expl |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | aux:pass |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 did | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fellows | det |
| 12 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fellows | amod |
| 13 | reckless | reckless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fellows | amod |
| 14 | fellows | fellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 found | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wished | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 wished | nsubj |
| 17 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fellows | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 earn | mark |
| 19 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wished | xcomp |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 payment | det |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 payment | amod |
| 22 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 earn | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | This | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | past · passive | This not said here | a few reckless fellows | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: fellow=Topic | |||
| 3 | wish | past | a few reckless fellows | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | earn not said to happen | to-infinitive | a few reckless fellows not said here | this good payment | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent payment=Theme |
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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