The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 71

It certainly occurred to the servant who had to clean his boots that they were astonishingly old boots for such a rich lord.

Who acts: money, boots · What happens: occur, have, clean, be · To what, where: boots, old boots

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 (money, boots), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 occurred	nsubj
2	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	3 occurred	advmod
3	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 servant	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 servant	det
6	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 occurred	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 occurred	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	10 clean	mark
10	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 had	xcomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 boots	nmod:poss
12	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 clean	obj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 boots	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 boots	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 boots	cop
16	astonishingly	astonishingly	ADV	_	18 boots	advmod
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 boots	amod
18	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 clean	advcl
19	for	for	ADP	_	23 lord	case
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	23 lord	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 lord	det
22	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lord	amod
23	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 boots	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 occurred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	occur	past	money		to the servant; certainly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past				tree rules
3	clean	to-infinitive		soldier's boots		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boot=Patient
4	is a	past	boots = boot	old boots	for such rich lord; astonishingly 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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