The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 7

It was to no purpose that Sunday after Sunday the minister gave out from his pulpit that double wages would be paid to anyone that would fulfil the sacred duty of ringing the bells of the church.

Who acts: end, Sunday, anyone, sacred duty · What happens: be, give out, pay, fulfil, ring · To what, where: purpose, pulpit, sacred duty, bells

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end, Sunday, anyone, sacred duty), 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	5 purpose	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 purpose	cop
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 purpose	case
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 purpose	det
5	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 gave	obj
7	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 gave	nsubj
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 Sunday	case
9	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Sunday	nmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 minister	det
11	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	nsubj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 purpose	acl:relcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 gave	compound:prt
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 pulpit	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 pulpit	nmod:poss
16	pulpit	pulpit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 paid	nsubj:pass
18	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wages	amod
19	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 paid	nsubj:pass
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 paid	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 paid	aux:pass
22	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 pulpit	acl:relcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 anyone	case
24	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 paid	obl:agent
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 fulfil	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 fulfil	aux
27	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 anyone	acl:relcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 duty	det
29	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 duty	amod
30	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fulfil	obj
31	of	of	SCONJ	_	32 ringing	mark
32	ringing	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 duty	acl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bells	det
34	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 ringing	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 church	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 church	det
37	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bells	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 purpose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	end			to no purpose	tree rules
2	give out	past	Sunday after Sunday	no purpose	minister's pulpit		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent that=Theme
3	pay	would · passive	anyone	minister's pulpit			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset
4	fulfil	would		the sacred duty			tree rules
5	ring	gerund	the sacred duty not said here	the bells of the church			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=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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