The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 65

Then he had a ton of gold brought, which sixteen of the strongest men had to carry; but the strong man seized it with one hand, put it in the sack, saying, ‘Why don’t you bring me more?

Who acts: King, strongest men, strong man, you · What happens: have, bring, carry, seize, put, say · To what, where: ton, sack, more, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, strongest men, strong man, you), 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	3 had	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ton	det
5	ton	ton	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 gold	case
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ton	nmod
8	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ton	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sixteen	punct
10	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	11 sixteen	det
11	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 ton	parataxis
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 men	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 men	det
14	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 men	amod
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sixteen	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 carry	mark
18	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 seized	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 seized	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seized	nsubj
24	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seized	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 hand	case
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 hand	nummod
28	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seized	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 put	punct
30	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 put	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 sack	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sack	det
34	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 put	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 saying	punct
36	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 had	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 bring	punct
38	‘	'	PUNCT	_	43 bring	punct
39	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	43 bring	advmod
40	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 bring	aux
41	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 bring	advmod
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 bring	nsubj
43	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 saying	conj
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 bring	obj
45	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	43 bring	obj
46	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	King	a ton of gold			then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ton=Patient
2	bring	participle		a ton of gold not said here					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	the strongest men						tree rules
4	carry	to-infinitive	the strongest men not said here						vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	seize	past	the strong man	ton				with one hand	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	put	infinitive	King not said here	ton		the sack			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in sack=Destination
7	say speech: assert	gerund	King not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	not bring	present · do-support	you	more	me				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination more=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 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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