The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 38

The coachman thanked the King for his graciousness, and was then led away to be richly dressed and instructed in all the arts and graces that befitted his new position.

Who acts: coachman, arts · What happens: thank, lead away, dress, instruct, befit · To what, where: King, arts, new position

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coachman, arts), 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 coachman	det
2	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thanked	nsubj
3	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thanked	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 graciousness	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 graciousness	nmod:poss
8	graciousness	graciousness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thanked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 led	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 led	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 led	aux:pass
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 led	advmod
13	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 thanked	parataxis
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 led	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	18 dressed	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 dressed	aux:pass
17	richly	richly	ADV	_	18 dressed	advmod
18	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 led	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 instructed	cc
20	instructed	instruct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 dressed	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 arts	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 arts	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 arts	det
24	arts	art	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 instructed	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 graces	cc
26	graces	grace	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 arts	conj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 befitted	nsubj
28	befitted	befit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 arts	acl:relcl
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 position	nmod:poss
30	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 position	amod
31	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 befitted	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	the coachman		the King			for coachman's graciousness	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent king=Theme for graciousness=Attribute
2	lead away	past · passive					then	away property	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»
3	dress	to-infinitive · passive						richly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»
4	instruct speech: other	participle				all arts and graces			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	befit	past	all arts and graces	coachman's new position					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 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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