The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 134
Then he was just the kind of man they liked, said they, and he might easily earn a good penny, before he was a day older, for the king paid a hundred dollars to anyone who would stand as sentinel in the church all night, beside his daughter’s chest.
Who acts: Christian, officers, kind, king · What happens: be, like, say, earn, pay, stand · To what, where: kind, man, good penny, hundred dollars, church · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Christian, officers, kind, king), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 kind | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 kind | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kind | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 kind | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kind | det |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | nmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 liked | nsubj |
| 10 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kind | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 earn | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 earn | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 earn | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 earn | aux |
| 18 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 19 earn | advmod |
| 19 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 penny | det |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 penny | amod |
| 22 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 earn | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 older | punct |
| 24 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 29 older | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 older | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 older | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 day | det |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 older | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 earn | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 paid | punct |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 34 paid | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 king | det |
| 33 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 paid | nsubj |
| 34 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 older | conj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 hundred | det |
| 36 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 dollars | nummod |
| 37 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 paid | obj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 anyone | case |
| 39 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 34 paid | obl |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 stand | nsubj |
| 41 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 stand | aux |
| 42 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 43 | as | as | ADP | _ | 44 sentinel | case |
| 44 | sentinel | sentinel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 stand | obl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 church | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 church | det |
| 47 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 stand | obl |
| 48 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 49 night | det |
| 49 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 stand | obl:unmarked |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 chest | punct |
| 51 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 55 chest | case |
| 52 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 53 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 chest | nmod:poss |
| 54 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 53 daughter | case |
| 55 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 stand | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Christian | the kind | then | of man | tree rules | ||
| 2 | like | past | officers = officer | man not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot man=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the kind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | earn | might | Christian | a good penny | easily property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penny=Theme | |||
| 5 | is | past | Christian | day | old property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | pay | past | the king | hundred dollars | to anyone | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Asset | |||
| 7 | stand | would | the church | night | as sentinel; beside Christian's daughter's chest | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in church=Location |
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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