The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 78
Now he lived very gaily, went to the theatre, drove in the King’s garden, and gave the poor a great deal of money, which was very nice of him; he had experienced in former times how hard it is not to have a farthing in the world.
Who acts: soldier, money, deal · What happens: live, go, drive, give, be, experience · To what, where: theatre, garden, poor, 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, money, deal), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lived | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 gaily | advmod |
| 5 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lived | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lived | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 theatre | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 theatre | det |
| 10 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drove | punct |
| 12 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lived | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 garden | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 garden | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 King | case |
| 17 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drove | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gave | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gave | cc |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lived | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 poor | det |
| 22 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 gave | obj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 deal | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 deal | amod |
| 25 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 money | case |
| 27 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 deal | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 nice | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 nice | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 nice | cop |
| 31 | very | very | ADV | _ | 32 nice | advmod |
| 32 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 money | parataxis |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 nice | obl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 experienced | punct |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 experienced | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 experienced | aux |
| 38 | experienced | experience | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 lived | parataxis |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 times | case |
| 40 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 times | amod |
| 41 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 hard | obl |
| 42 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 43 hard | advmod |
| 43 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 experienced | advcl |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 have | nsubj |
| 45 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 have | cop |
| 46 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 48 have | advmod |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 have | mark |
| 48 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 experienced | ccomp |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 farthing | det |
| 50 | farthing | farthing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 have | obj |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 53 world | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 world | det |
| 53 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 farthing | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | soldier | now | gaily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | soldier not said here | the theatre | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to theatre=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | drive | past | soldier not said here | the King's garden | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | give | past | soldier not said here | the poor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent poor=Recipient deal=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | money | of soldier; nice property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | experience | past · perfect | soldier | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | not is | present | deal | have property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | deal | money | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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