The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 36

His first care was to buy himself some new clothes, which he sadly needed, taking care, however, that they should be made after a foreign fashion.

Who acts: first care, Tiidu · What happens: be, need, take, make, care · To what, where: Tiidu, new clothes, care, clothes

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 (first care, Tiidu), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2435:1031): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

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	3 care	nmod:poss
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 care	amod
3	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 buy	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 buy	mark
6	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 buy	iobj
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 clothes	det
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 clothes	amod
10	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 buy	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 needed	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 needed	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 needed	nsubj
14	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	15 needed	advmod
15	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 clothes	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 taking	punct
17	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 buy	advcl
18	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 taking	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 however	punct
20	however	however	ADV	_	17 taking	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 made	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 made	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 made	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 made	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 made	aux:pass
26	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 taking	ccomp
27	after	after	ADP	_	30 fashion	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 fashion	det
29	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fashion	amod
30	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 made	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 buy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Tiidu's first care		Tiidu		buy property	tree rules
2	need	past	Tiidu	some new clothes			sadly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=Theme
3	take	gerund	Tiidu's first care not said here	care			however property	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent care=Theme clause=Attribute
4	make	should · passive		clothes		after a foreign fashion		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
5	care		Tiidu					nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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