The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 33

Then they told her that they had become the servants of the Dragon for seven long years, and how he had given them money as plentifully as blackberries; but as they had signed their names they were his, unless when the seven years had passed they could guess a riddle.

Who acts: carriages · What happens: tell, become, give, sign, be, pass · To what, where: woman, servants, One, carriages, seven years, riddle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carriages), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 become	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 become	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 become	aux
8	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 servants	det
10	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 become	xcomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Dragon	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Dragon	det
13	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 servants	nmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 years	case
15	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 years	nummod
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 years	amod
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 become	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 given	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 given	cc
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 given	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 given	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 given	aux
23	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 become	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 given	obj
25	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 given	obj
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 plentifully	advmod
27	plentifully	plentifully	ADV	_	23 given	advmod
28	as	as	ADP	_	29 blackberries	case
29	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 plentifully	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 signed	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 signed	cc
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 signed	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 signed	nsubj:pass
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 signed	aux
35	signed	sign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	parataxis
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 names	nmod:poss
37	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 signed	obj
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 his	nsubj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 his	cop
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 names	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 passed	punct
42	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	48 passed	mark
43	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	48 passed	advmod
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 years	det
45	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 years	nummod
46	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 passed	nsubj:pass
47	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 passed	aux
48	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 signed	conj
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 guess	nsubj
50	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 guess	aux
51	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 passed	parataxis
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 riddle	det
53	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 guess	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	carriages = carriage		woman	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	become	past · perfect	carriages = carriage	the servants of the Dragon		year		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	give	past · perfect · passive		One			plentifully property	tree rules
4	sign	past · perfect · passive		carriages = carriage				vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient name=Topic
5	is a	past	carriages = carriage	One				tree rules
6	pass a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		the seven years				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
7	guess	could	carriages = carriage	a riddle				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=Theme
8	name		carriages = carriage					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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