The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 101

He determined to try whether his plan would really bring luck; but as he did not like being laughed at he resolved not to tell anyone a word about it.

Who acts: man, plan · What happens: determine, try, bring, not like, laugh, resolve · To what, where: luck, word, anyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, plan), 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 determined	nsubj
2	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 try	mark
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 determined	xcomp
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	10 bring	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 plan	nmod:poss
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bring	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 bring	aux
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 bring	advmod
10	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 try	advcl
11	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bring	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 laughed	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 like	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 like	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 like	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 like	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 like	advmod
18	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 laughed	nsubj:pass
19	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 laughed	aux:pass
20	laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 determined	parataxis
21	at	at	SCONJ	_	23 resolved	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 resolved	nsubj
23	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 laughed	advcl
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 tell	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 tell	mark
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 resolved	xcomp
27	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 tell	obj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 word	det
29	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tell	obj
30	about	about	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 word	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	determine	past	man			vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	try	to-infinitive	man not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	bring	would	man's plan	luck		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme
4	not like	past · do-support	man			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	laugh	gerund · passive				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	resolve	past	man			tree rules
7	not tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	man not said here	a word	anyone	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient word=Topic
8	plan		man			nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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