The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 63

Master Peter had no control at all of the money affairs of the household, so the contents of this secret hoard were quite unknown to him, and this seemed to be a good opportunity for finding out what they were.

Who acts: Master Peter, contents, this, good opportunity · What happens: have, be, seem, find out · To what, where: control, all, Peter, good opportunity

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 (Master Peter, contents, this, good opportunity), 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	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Peter	compound
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 control	det
5	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 control	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 affairs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 affairs	det
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 affairs	compound
11	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 all	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 household	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 household	det
14	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 affairs	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 unknown	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	25 unknown	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 contents	det
18	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	25 unknown	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 hoard	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 hoard	det
21	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hoard	amod
22	hoard	hoard	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 contents	nmod
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 unknown	cop
24	quite	quite	ADV	_	25 unknown	advmod
25	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 unknown	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 seemed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 seemed	cc
30	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 seemed	nsubj
31	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	36 opportunity	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 opportunity	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 opportunity	det
35	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 opportunity	amod
36	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seemed	xcomp
37	for	for	SCONJ	_	38 finding	mark
38	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 opportunity	acl
39	out	out	ADP	_	38 finding	compound:prt
40	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 finding	obj
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 were	nsubj
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 what	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Master Peter	no control		all		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Patient
2	is	past	the contents of this secret hoard		Peter		unknown property	tree rules
3	seem	past	this					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is a	to-infinitive	this not said here	a good opportunity				tree rules
5	find out	gerund	a good opportunity not said here	a good opportunity				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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