The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 18

But the cost of the passage was more than the prudent Tiidu cared to pay, and though he played his best on his pipes, the captain refused to lower his price, and Tiidu was just thinking of returning on shore when his usual luck flew to his aid.

Who acts: cost, prudent Tiidu, Tiidu, captain, usual luck · What happens: be, care, pay, play, refuse, not lower · To what, where: best, pipes, price, shore, passage

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 (cost, prudent Tiidu, Tiidu, captain), 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	_	8 more	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cost	det
3	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 more	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 passage	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 passage	det
6	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cost	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 more	cop
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 cared	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Tiidu	det
11	prudent	prudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Tiidu	amod
12	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 cared	nsubj
13	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 more	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 pay	mark
15	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 cared	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 played	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 played	cc
18	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 played	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 played	nsubj
20	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 more	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 best	nmod:poss
22	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 played	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 pipes	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 pipes	nmod:poss
25	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 played	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 refused	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 captain	det
28	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 refused	nsubj
29	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 played	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 lower	mark
31	lower	lower	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 refused	xcomp
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 price	nmod:poss
33	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lower	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 thinking	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 thinking	cc
36	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 thinking	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 thinking	aux
38	just	just	ADV	_	39 thinking	advmod
39	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 refused	advcl
40	of	of	SCONJ	_	41 returning	mark
41	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 thinking	advcl
42	on	on	ADP	_	43 shore	case
43	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 returning	obl
44	when	when	SCONJ	_	48 flew	mark
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 luck	nmod:poss
46	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 luck	amod
47	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 flew	nsubj
48	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 returning	advcl
49	to	to	ADP	_	51 aid	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 aid	nmod:poss
51	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 flew	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 more	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cost of the passage			more property	tree rules
2	care	past	the prudent Tiidu				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	pay	to-infinitive	the prudent Tiidu not said here				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	play	past	Tiidu	Tiidu's best	Tiidu's pipes		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Theme
5	refuse	past	the captain				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not lower	to-infinitive	the captain not said here	Tiidu's price			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme
7	think speech: other	past · progressive	Tiidu				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	return	gerund	Tiidu not said here		shore		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	fly	past	Tiidu's usual luck			to Tiidu's aid result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to aid=Result
10	cost			the passage			nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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