The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 82

He spent his winters crouching close to a warm stove, and his summers asleep under a shady tree; and if he was not doing either of these things he was playing tunes on his flute.

Who acts: man · What happens: spend, crouch, not do, play · To what, where: either, tunes, flute

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), 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 spent	nsubj
2	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 winters	nmod:poss
4	winters	winter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spent	obj
5	crouching	crouch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 spent	advcl
6	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 crouching	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 stove	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stove	det
9	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stove	amod
10	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crouching	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 asleep	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 asleep	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 summers	nmod:poss
14	summers	summer	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 asleep	nsubj
15	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spent	advcl
16	under	under	ADP	_	19 tree	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 tree	det
18	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tree	amod
19	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asleep	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 doing	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 doing	cc
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 doing	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 doing	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 doing	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 doing	advmod
26	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 spent	advcl
27	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	26 doing	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 things	case
29	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	30 things	det
30	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 either	nmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 playing	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 playing	aux
33	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 things	acl:relcl
34	tunes	tune	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 playing	obj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 flute	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 flute	nmod:poss
37	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 playing	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	man			winter		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	crouch	gerund	man not said here				to a warm stove; close property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not do a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	man	either				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent either=Eventuality
4	play	past · progressive	man	tunes	man's flute			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=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: «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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