The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 29

If his pockets were empty he borrowed of his neighbours, but he always took good care to prevent his scolding wife from finding out that he had done so.

Who acts: pockets, Master · What happens: be, borrow, take, prevent, find out, do · To what, where: good care, scolding wife

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pockets, Master), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 empty	mark
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 pockets	nmod:poss
3	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 empty	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 empty	cop
5	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 borrowed	nsubj
7	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 empty	ccomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 neighbours	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 neighbours	nmod:poss
10	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 borrowed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 took	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 took	nsubj
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 took	advmod
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 borrowed	conj
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 care	amod
17	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 prevent	mark
19	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 took	advcl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wife	nmod:poss
21	scolding	scolding	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wife	compound
22	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 prevent	obj
23	from	from	SCONJ	_	24 finding	mark
24	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 prevent	advcl
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 finding	compound:prt
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 done	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 done	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 done	aux
29	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 finding	advcl
30	so	so	ADV	_	29 done	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 empty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Master's pockets		empty property	tree rules
2	borrow	past	Master		of Master's neighbours	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	take	past	Master	good care	always property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
4	prevent	to-infinitive	Master not said here	Master's scolding wife		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer wife=Theme
5	find out	gerund	Master not said here			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
6	do	past · perfect	Master			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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