The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 39

He did not quite trust the gnome’s promises of safety, and was in such haste to find himself once more in the light of day that he looked neither to the right nor the left, and could not afterwards remember whether the walls and pillars had sparkled with jewels or not.

Who acts: Peter, light, walls, gnome · What happens: not trust, be, find, look, not remember, sparkle · To what, where: promises, such haste, Peter, safety, day · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, light, walls, gnome), 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	5 trust	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trust	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 trust	advmod
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 trust	advmod
5	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gnome	det
7	gnome	gnome	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 promises	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 gnome	case
9	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 trust	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 safety	case
11	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 promises	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 haste	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 haste	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 haste	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 haste	case
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 haste	amod
17	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trust	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 find	mark
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 haste	csubj
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 find	obj
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 more	advmod
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 find	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 light	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 light	det
25	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 haste	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 day	case
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 light	nmod
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 looked	nsubj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 looked	nsubj
30	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 light	acl:relcl
31	neither	neither	ADV	_	30 looked	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 right	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 right	det
34	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 looked	obl
35	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	37 left	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 left	det
37	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 right	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 remember	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 remember	cc
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 remember	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 remember	advmod
42	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	43 remember	advmod
43	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 trust	parataxis
44	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	50 sparkled	mark
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 walls	det
46	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 sparkled	nsubj
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 pillars	cc
48	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 walls	conj
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 sparkled	aux
50	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 remember	ccomp
51	with	with	ADP	_	52 jewels	case
52	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 sparkled	obl
53	or	or	CCONJ	_	54 not	cc
54	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 sparkled	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 trust	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not trust	past · do-support	Peter	the gnome's promises of safety			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
2	is	past			such haste	in the light of day	tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive		Peter			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
4	look	past	the light of day			to the right nor the left; neither property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to right=Theme
5	not remember	could				afterwards property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	sparkle	past · perfect	the walls and pillars			with jewels	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with jewel=Theme
7	promise		the gnome	safety			nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient
8	light			day			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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