The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 103
His parents did not take his loss much to heart, but were rather glad that their useless son had for once shown a little spirit, and they hoped that time and hardship might cure Tiidu of his idle folly.
Who acts: parents, useless son, time · What happens: not take, be, have, show, hope, cure · To what, where: loss, little spirit, Tiidu · 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 (parents, useless son, time), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 parents | nmod:poss |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 take | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 take | advmod |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 loss | nmod:poss |
| 7 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 take | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 heart | mark |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 much | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 glad | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 glad | cc |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 glad | cop |
| 14 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 15 glad | advmod |
| 15 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 take | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 had | mark |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 son | amod |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 glad | advcl |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 shown | mark |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 23 shown | advmod |
| 23 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 had | xcomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 spirit | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 spirit | amod |
| 26 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shown | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hoped | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 hoped | cc |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 hoped | nsubj |
| 30 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 glad | conj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 cure | mark |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cure | nsubj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 hardship | cc |
| 34 | hardship | hardship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 time | conj |
| 35 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 cure | aux |
| 36 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 hoped | ccomp |
| 37 | Tiidu | Tiidu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 cure | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 folly | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 folly | nmod:poss |
| 40 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 folly | amod |
| 41 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Tiidu | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | past · do-support | man's parents | man's loss | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument loss=Theme much=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | past | glad property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | past | parents's useless son | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | show | participle | parents's useless son not said here | a little spirit | once property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent spirit=Recipient | |||
| 5 | hope | past | parents = parent | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | cure | might | time and hardship | Tiidu of man's idle folly | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer tiidu=Source |
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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