The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 79
Now he was rich, wore fine clothes, and made many friends, who all said that he was an excellent man, a real nobleman.
Who acts: soldier, many friends · What happens: be, wear, make, say · To what, where: fine clothes, many friends, excellent man · Speech: someone speaks here
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, many friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:3318): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 rich | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rich | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rich | cop |
| 4 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wore | punct |
| 6 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rich | conj |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 clothes | amod |
| 8 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 wore | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rich | conj |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 friends | amod |
| 13 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 made | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 said | nsubj |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 said | advmod |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 friends | acl:relcl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 man | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 man | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 man | cop |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 nobleman | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 nobleman | det |
| 26 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 nobleman | amod |
| 27 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 man | appos |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rich | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | soldier | now | rich property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wear | past | soldier not said here | fine clothes | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source | ||||
| 3 | make | past | soldier not said here | many friends | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | many friends | all property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | soldier | a excellent man | 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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