More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 93

Then he took me into the park to show me his deer: and I remembered that I had a warrant in my pocket to shoot venison for his majesty's dinner.

Who acts: hare, I · What happens: take, show, remember, have, shoot · To what, where: me, park, deer, warrant, pocket, venison · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 took	iobj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 park	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 park	det
7	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 show	mark
9	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	advcl
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 show	iobj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 deer	nmod:poss
12	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 show	obj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 remembered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 remembered	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 remembered	nsubj
16	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 remembered	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 warrant	det
21	warrant	warrant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 pocket	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 pocket	nmod:poss
24	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 shoot	mark
26	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	advcl
27	venison	venison	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shoot	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	32 dinner	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 majesty	nmod:poss
30	majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dinner	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 majesty	case
32	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shoot	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	hare		me	the park	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme into park=Destination
2	show	to-infinitive	hare not said here	hare's deer	me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient deer=Topic
3	remember	past	I						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	have	past	I	a warrant		my pocket			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrant=Patient
5	shoot	to-infinitive	I not said here	venison				for hare's majesty's dinner	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venison=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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