The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 102
There he bought himself some fine clothes, and a beautiful coach with four horses, hired two servants, and drove back to his master.
Who acts: BOY · What happens: buy, hire, drive back · To what, where: BOY, two servants, master
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (BOY), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 bought | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bought | nsubj |
| 3 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 bought | obj |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 clothes | det |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 clothes | amod |
| 7 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 bought | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 coach | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 coach | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 coach | det |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 coach | amod |
| 12 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bought | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 horses | case |
| 14 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 horses | nummod |
| 15 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 coach | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hired | punct |
| 17 | hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bought | conj |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 servants | nummod |
| 19 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hired | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 drove | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 drove | cc |
| 22 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bought | conj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 drove | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 master | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 master | nmod:poss |
| 26 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drove | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | BOY | BOY | there | a beautiful coach with four horses obl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary clothes=Theme | ||
| 2 | hire | past | BOY not said here | two servants | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drive back | past | BOY not said here | BOY's master | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to master=Trajectory |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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