The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 23
In that case he had, by his own folly, in not letting well alone, ruined his life completely.
Who acts: shrinking · What happens: have, not let, ruin · To what, where: case, life
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shrinking), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 case | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 case | det |
| 3 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 folly | punct |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 folly | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 folly | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 folly | amod |
| 10 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 letting | punct |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 14 letting | mark |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 letting | advmod |
| 14 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 had | advcl |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 alone | advmod |
| 16 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 14 letting | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ruined | punct |
| 18 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 life | nmod:poss |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ruined | obj |
| 21 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 18 ruined | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | shrinking | that case | by shrinking's own folly | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not let | gerund | shrinking not said here | alone property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ruin | past | shrinking not said here | shrinking's life | completely property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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