The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 36
The merchants were very pleased to make so good a bargain, left the child with Mark, and drove off.
Who acts: merchants · What happens: be, make, leave, drive off · To what, where: good bargain, child
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 (merchants), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 merchants | det |
| 2 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 left | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 merchants | amod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pleased | xcomp |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 good | advmod |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bargain | amod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bargain | det |
| 11 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 merchants | punct |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 child | det |
| 15 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 left | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 Mark | case |
| 17 | Mark | Mark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 left | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 drove | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 drove | cc |
| 20 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 left | conj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 drove | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | pleased property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | a good bargain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bargain=Product | |||||
| 3 | leave | past | the merchants | the child | with Mark | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent child=Recipient with mark=Theme | |||
| 4 | drive off | past | the merchants not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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