The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 17
He entered the inn and the two brothers made merry and feasted, till very soon their money was all spent.
Who acts: man, two brothers · What happens: enter, make, spend · To what, where: inn, money
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, two brothers), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 inn | det |
| 4 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 brothers | det |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 brothers | nummod |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 made | nsubj |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entered | conj |
| 10 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 made | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 feasted | cc |
| 12 | feasted | feasted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 merry | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 spent | punct |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 spent | mark |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 soon | advmod |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 spent | advmod |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 money | nmod:poss |
| 18 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spent | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 spent | aux:pass |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 21 spent | advmod |
| 21 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 made | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | man | the inn | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme inn=Destination | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the two brothers | merry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | spend | past · passive | merrymakers's money | all, soon property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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