The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 13
For wood-cutting was their trade, and they loaded several donkeys with the wood, and sold it in the town.
Who acts: books · What happens: be, load, sell · To what, where: trade, several donkeys, wood, town
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (books), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 cutting | case |
| 2 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cutting | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 wood | punct |
| 4 | cutting | cutting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trade | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 trade | cop |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 trade | nmod:poss |
| 7 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 loaded | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 loaded | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 loaded | nsubj |
| 11 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 trade | acl:relcl |
| 12 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 donkeys | amod |
| 13 | donkeys | donkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 loaded | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 wood | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wood | det |
| 16 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 loaded | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sold | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sold | cc |
| 19 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 trade | parataxis |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sold | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 town | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 town | det |
| 23 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sold | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 trade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | books's trade | for wood cutting | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | load | past | books = book | books's trade not said here | several donkeys | with the wood | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent donkey=Destination with wood=Theme | ||
| 3 | sell | past | wood | the town | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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