The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 70
He turned into the finest inn, ordered the best chamber and his favourite dinner; for now that he had so much money he was really rich.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: turn, order, have, be · To what, where: finest inn, best chamber, much money
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 inn | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 inn | det |
| 5 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 inn | amod |
| 6 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ordered | punct |
| 8 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chamber | det |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 chamber | amod |
| 11 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ordered | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dinner | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 14 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dinner | amod |
| 15 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chamber | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 now | case |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 had | advmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 had | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 much | advmod |
| 23 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 money | amod |
| 24 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 rich | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 rich | cop |
| 27 | really | really | ADV | _ | 28 rich | advmod |
| 28 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 money | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | soldier | the finest inn | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into inn=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | order | past | the best chamber and soldier's favourite dinner | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chamber=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | soldier | much money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | soldier | much money not said here | rich property | 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 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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