The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 49

He sent them into the woods and fields, but instead of looking for a nest they only played pranks on him.

Who acts: Peter, boys · What happens: send, look, play · To what, where: boys, woods, pranks

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 (Peter, boys), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 woods	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woods	det
6	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sent	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fields	cc
8	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 woods	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 played	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 played	cc
11	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 looking	mark
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 instead	fixed
13	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 played	advcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 nest	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 nest	det
16	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looking	obl
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 played	nsubj
18	only	only	ADV	_	19 played	advmod
19	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sent	conj
20	pranks	prank	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 played	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 played	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past	Peter	boys = boy	the woods and fields		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	look	gerund	boys = boy not said here			for a nest	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for nest=Theme
3	play	past	boys = boy	pranks		on Peter	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prank=Theme

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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