More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 107

But he did not know what to do at first to gain fame and fortune, so for a time he was fonder of basking idly in the sun than in plying the needle and scissors.

Who acts: Johnny · What happens: not know, do, gain, be, bask, ply · To what, where: fame, sun, needle

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Johnny), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 know	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 know	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 what	acl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 first	case
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 do	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 gain	mark
12	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 do	advcl
13	fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gain	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fortune	cc
15	fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fame	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fonder	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	23 fonder	advmod
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 time	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 time	det
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fonder	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fonder	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fonder	cop
23	fonder	fond	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 know	conj
24	of	of	SCONJ	_	25 basking	mark
25	basking	bask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 fonder	advcl
26	idly	idly	ADV	_	25 basking	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 sun	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sun	det
29	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 basking	obl
30	than	than	SCONJ	_	32 plying	mark
31	in	in	SCONJ	_	32 plying	mark
32	plying	ply	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 basking	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 needle	det
34	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 plying	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 scissors	cc
36	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 needle	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	Johnny					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	do	to-infinitive	Johnny not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	gain	to-infinitive	Johnny not said here	fame and fortune				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fame=Theme
4	is	past	Johnny			time	fond property	tree rules
5	bask	gerund	Johnny not said here		the sun		idly property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	ply	gerund	Johnny not said here	the needle and scissors				vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent needle=Recipient

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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