The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 44
No one could read, write, or sing better than he, and he did everything so well that the abbot made him wardrobe keeper.
Who acts: one, boy, abbot · What happens: read, write, sing, do, make, wardrobe · To what, where: everything, boy, keeper
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 (one, boy, abbot), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 read | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 read | aux |
| 4 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 write | punct |
| 6 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 read | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sing | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 sing | cc |
| 9 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 read | conj |
| 10 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 sing | advmod |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 he | case |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 better | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 did | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 did | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 did | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 read | parataxis |
| 17 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 did | obj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 well | advmod |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 did | advmod |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 made | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 abbot | det |
| 22 | abbot | abbot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | nsubj |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 did | advcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 made | obj |
| 25 | wardrobe | wardrobe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 made | xcomp |
| 26 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wardrobe | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | could | no one | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | write | infinitive | no one not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | infinitive | no one not said here | well property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | past | boy | everything | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | make | past | the abbot | boy | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | wardrobe | infinitive | boy not said here | keeper | tree rules |
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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