The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 19
The barber shaved the best men in the kingdom, and he, too, made sure that the house would be his.
Who acts: barber · What happens: shave, make, be · To what, where: best men, kingdom, barber
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (barber), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 barber | det |
| 2 | barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shaved | nsubj |
| 3 | shaved | shave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 men | det |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 men | amod |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shaved | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 kingdom | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kingdom | det |
| 9 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shaved | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 made | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 he | punct |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 made | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 too | punct |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shaved | parataxis |
| 17 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 made | xcomp |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 would | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 would | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 sure | ccomp |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 his | cop |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 would | nmod:poss |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shaved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shave | past | the barber | the best men | the kingdom | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | participle · passive | barber | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | is a | infinitive | barber | 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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