The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 66

However, he had always prided himself on being an honourable man, so he cut off his nose, and handed it to Paperarello.

Who acts: king · What happens: pride, be, cut off, hand · To what, where: king, nose, Paperarello

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	However	however	ADV	_	6 prided	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 prided	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prided	aux
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 prided	advmod
6	prided	pride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 prided	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	12 man	case
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 man	cop
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	honourable	honourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prided	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cut	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 cut	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cut	nsubj
16	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prided	parataxis
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 cut	compound:prt
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 nose	nmod:poss
19	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cut	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 handed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 handed	cc
22	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cut	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 handed	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 Paperarello	case
25	Paperarello	Paperarello	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 handed	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 prided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	pride	past · perfect	king	king		always, however property	tree rules
2	is	gerund				on a honourable man	tree rules
3	cut off	past	king	king's nose			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector nose=Eventuality
4	hand	past	king not said here	nose	Paperarello		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to paperarello=Destination

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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