The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 86
It did not take him long to find what he wanted, and after he had paid for it there was plenty of money left over.
Who acts: It, man, plenty · What happens: not take, find, want, pay, be, leave over · To what, where: man, money
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, man, plenty), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 take | advmod |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 take | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 take | advcl |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 find | obj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wanted | nsubj |
| 11 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 paid | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 paid | cc |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 17 paid | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 paid | aux |
| 17 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 take | parataxis |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 paid | obl |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 paid | advcl |
| 22 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 was | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 money | case |
| 24 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 plenty | nmod |
| 25 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 money | acl |
| 26 | over | over | ADV | _ | 25 left | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | past · do-support | It | man | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | want | past | man | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | pay | past · perfect · passive | man | for property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | be | past | plenty of money | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | leave over | participle | money not said here | over property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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