The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 14

Now Tiidu saw quite clearly that he could only hope to become rich by means of his pipes, and set about thinking if there was nothing he could do to make the money flow in faster.

Who acts: Tiidu, rich, nothing · What happens: see, hope, become, mean, set, think · To what, where: money flow, faster

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, rich, nothing), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 saw	advmod
2	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 clearly	advmod
5	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	3 saw	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 hope	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hope	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hope	aux
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 hope	advmod
10	hope	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saw	xcomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 become	mark
12	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hope	xcomp
13	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 means	nsubj
14	by	by	ADP	_	13 rich	fixed
15	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 become	ccomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 pipes	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 pipes	nmod:poss
18	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 means	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 set	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 set	cc
21	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hope	conj
22	about	about	SCONJ	_	23 thinking	mark
23	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 set	advcl
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 was	mark
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 was	expl
26	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 thinking	ccomp
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 was	nsubj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 do	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 do	aux
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 nothing	acl:relcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 make	mark
32	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 do	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 flow	det
34	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 flow	compound
35	flow	flow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 make	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 faster	case
37	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 make	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Tiidu			now	clearly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	hope	could	Tiidu					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	become not said to happen	to-infinitive	Tiidu not said here					tree rules
4	mean	present	rich				of Tiidu's pipes	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	set	infinitive	Tiidu not said here					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	think speech: other	gerund	Tiidu not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	be a condition, not said to happen	past	nothing		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	do	could	Tiidu					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	make	to-infinitive	Tiidu not said here	the money flow	faster			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flow=Product

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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