The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 27
The peasants were quite contented with this arrangement, which gave them food and money in abundance.
What happens: content, give · To what, where: peasants, food, presents, abundance
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 peasants | det |
| 2 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 contented | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 contented | aux:pass |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 contented | advmod |
| 5 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 arrangement | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 arrangement | det |
| 8 | arrangement | arrangement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 contented | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 contented | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | iobj |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 money | cc |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 food | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 abundance | case |
| 17 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 contented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | content | past · passive | the peasants | with this arrangement | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | give | past | food and money | presents = present | abundance | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient food=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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