The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 39

He had his pocket full of money, and treated them, and drank with them and boasted and made game of the good-for-nothings who were afraid to stand on guard, because they were frightened that the dead princess would eat them.

Who acts: Christian, good nothings, dead princess · What happens: have, treat, drink, boast, make, be · To what, where: pocket, dollars, game, guard

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christian, good nothings, dead princess), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 pocket	nmod:poss
4	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pocket	amod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 money	case
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 full	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 treated	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 treated	cc
10	treated	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 treated	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 drank	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 drank	cc
14	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 drank	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 boasted	cc
18	boasted	boast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 drank	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 made	cc
20	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 boasted	conj
21	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 made	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	28 nothings	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 nothings	det
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 nothings	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 nothings	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 nothings	case
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 for	punct
28	nothings	nothing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 game	nmod
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 afraid	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 afraid	cop
31	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 nothings	acl:relcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 stand	mark
33	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 afraid	xcomp
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 guard	case
35	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stand	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 frightened	punct
37	because	because	SCONJ	_	40 frightened	mark
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 frightened	nsubj:pass
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 frightened	aux:pass
40	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 drank	parataxis
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 eat	mark
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 princess	det
43	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 princess	amod
44	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 eat	nsubj
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 eat	aux
46	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 frightened	advcl
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 eat	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Christian	Christian's pocket			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient
2	treat	past		dollars = dollar			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	drink	past	Christian not said here			with dollars = dollar	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	boast speech: other	participle	Christian not said here				vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	make	participle	Christian not said here	game of the good nothings			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset game=Product
6	is	past	the good nothings			afraid property	tree rules
7	stand	to-infinitive	the good nothings not said here		guard		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on guard=Location
8	frighten	past · passive		dollars = dollar			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
9	eat	would	the dead princess	dollars = dollar			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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