The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 29

Very soon after this some foreign merchants travelled along that same road on the way to see Mark and to pay the twelve thousand crowns which they owed him.

Who acts: foreign merchants, thousand crowns · What happens: travel, see, pay, owe · To what, where: way, Mark, thousand crowns

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foreign merchants, thousand crowns), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 travelled	advmod
3	after	after	ADP	_	4 this	case
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 soon	obl
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 merchants	det
6	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 merchants	amod
7	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 travelled	nsubj
8	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	along	along	ADP	_	12 road	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 road	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 road	amod
12	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 travelled	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 way	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 travelled	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 travelled	advcl
18	Mark	Mark	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 see	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 pay	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 pay	mark
21	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 see	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 crowns	det
23	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 thousand	compound
24	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 crowns	nummod
25	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 pay	obj
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 owed	nsubj
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 owed	nsubj
28	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 crowns	acl:relcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 owed	iobj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	travel	past	some foreign merchants			the way	along that same road; soon property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory
2	see	to-infinitive	some foreign merchants not said here	Mark				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus
3	pay	to-infinitive	some foreign merchants not said here	the thousand crowns				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Asset
4	owe	past	the thousand crowns		Mark			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=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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