The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 72

But that was because he had not yet bought new ones; next day he appeared in respectable boots and fine clothes.

Who acts: soldier · What happens: not buy, appear · To what, where: that, respectable 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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 bought	cc
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 bought	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bought	aux:pass
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 bought	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bought	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bought	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 bought	advmod
8	yet	yet	ADV	_	9 bought	advmod
9	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ones	amod
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bought	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 appeared	punct
13	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 day	amod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 appeared	obl:unmarked
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 appeared	nsubj
16	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bought	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 boots	case
18	respectable	respectable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 boots	amod
19	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 appeared	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 clothes	cc
21	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 clothes	amod
22	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	19 boots	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 bought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not buy	past · perfect · passive		that			yet		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary one=Theme
2	appear	past	soldier			respectable boots and fine clothes	day		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in boot=Location

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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