The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 15

So the donkey was bought, and the neighbours came, and they worked hard all day, and in the evening they brought the wood back into the town, and sold it for a good sum of money.

Who acts: neighbours, donkeys · What happens: buy, come, work, bring back, sell, sum · To what, where: donkey, wood, town, money

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 (neighbours, donkeys), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 bought	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 donkey	det
3	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bought	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bought	aux:pass
5	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 neighbours	det
9	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bought	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 worked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 worked	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 worked	nsubj
14	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	parataxis
15	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 worked	advmod
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 worked	obl:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 brought	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 brought	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 evening	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 evening	det
22	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 brought	obl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 brought	nsubj
24	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 worked	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wood	det
26	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 brought	obj
27	back	back	ADV	_	24 brought	advmod
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 town	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 town	det
30	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 brought	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sold	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sold	cc
33	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sold	obj
35	for	for	ADP	_	38 sum	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 sum	det
37	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 sum	amod
38	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sold	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 money	case
40	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sum	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past · passive		the donkey				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	come	past	the neighbours					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	work	past	donkeys = donkey			day	hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bring back	past	donkeys = donkey	the wood	the town	evening		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wood=Theme into town=Destination
5	sell	past	the neighbours not said here	wood			for a good sum of money	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme for sum=Asset
6	sum			money				nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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