The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 46
The monks were very polite to him and showed him their house and church and all they had.
Who acts: monks · What happens: be, show, have · To what, where: boy, house
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 (monks), 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 monks | det |
| 2 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 polite | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 polite | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 polite | advmod |
| 5 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 polite | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 showed | cc |
| 9 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 polite | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 showed | iobj |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 house | nmod:poss |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 showed | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 church | cc |
| 14 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 all | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 house | conj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 all | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 polite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the monks | boy | polite property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | show | past | the monks not said here | monks's house and church | boy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient house=Topic | |||
| 3 | have | past | monks = monk | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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