The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 93
All his friends immediately recognised him again, and paid him great court.
Who acts: friends · What happens: recognise, pay · To what, where: soldier
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 (friends), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 friends | det:predet |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friends | nmod:poss |
| 3 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 recognised | nsubj |
| 4 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 5 recognised | advmod |
| 5 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 recognised | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 recognised | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 paid | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 paid | cc |
| 10 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 recognised | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 paid | obj |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 court | amod |
| 13 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 paid | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 recognised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | past | soldier's friends | soldier | again | immediately property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | pay | past | soldier's friends not said here | soldier | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient court=Asset |
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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