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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 53

Father Peter did his best to cheer the young man up, and invited him to sup with him at the first inn they came to, thinking that perhaps hunger and poverty were causing the stranger’s trouble.

Who acts: Father, man, feet, hunger, stranger · What happens: do, cheer up, invite, sup, come, think · To what, where: best, young man, man, first inn, trouble · 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 (Father, man, feet, hunger), 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

nsubjflatnmod:possobjmarkadvcldetamodobjcompound:prtpunctccconjobjmarkxcompcaseoblcasedetamodoblnsubjacl:relcloblpunctadvclmarkadvmodnsubjccconjauxccompdetnmod:posscaseobjpunctrootFatherPROPNPeterPROPNdidVERBhisPRONbestADJtoPARTcheerVERBtheDETyoungADJmanNOUNupADP,PUNCTandCCONJinvitedVERBhimPRONtoPARTsupVERBwithADPhimPRONatADPtheDETfirstADJinnNOUNtheyPRONcameVERBtoADP,PUNCTthinkingVERBthatSCONJperhapsADVhungerNOUNandCCONJpovertyNOUNwereAUXcausingVERBtheDETstrangerNOUN’sPARTtroubleNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1FatherFatherPROPNNumber=Sing3 didnsubj
2PeterPeterPROPNNumber=Sing1 Fatherflat
3diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 bestnmod:poss
5bestgoodADJDegree=Sup3 didobj
6totoPART_7 cheermark
7cheercheerVERBVerbForm=Inf3 didadvcl
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 mandet
9youngyoungADJDegree=Pos10 manamod
10manmanNOUNNumber=Sing7 cheerobj
11upupADP_7 cheercompound:prt
12,,PUNCT_14 invitedpunct
13andandCCONJ_14 invitedcc
14invitedinviteVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 didconj
15himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 invitedobj
16totoPART_17 supmark
17supsupVERBVerbForm=Inf14 invitedxcomp
18withwithADP_19 himcase
19himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 supobl
20atatADP_23 inncase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 inndet
22firstfirstADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord23 innamod
23inninnNOUNNumber=Sing17 supobl
24theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs25 camensubj
25camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 innacl:relcl
26totoADP_25 cameobl
27,,PUNCT_28 thinkingpunct
28thinkingthinkVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part17 supadvcl
29thatthatSCONJ_35 causingmark
30perhapsperhapsADV_31 hungeradvmod
31hungerhungerNOUNNumber=Sing35 causingnsubj
32andandCCONJ_33 povertycc
33povertypovertyNOUNNumber=Sing31 hungerconj
34werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin35 causingaux
35causingcauseVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part28 thinkingccomp
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 strangerdet
37strangerstrangerNOUNNumber=Sing39 troublenmod:poss
38’s'sPART_37 strangercase
39troubletroubleNOUNNumber=Sing35 causingobj
40..PUNCT_3 didpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1dopastFatherfather's bestvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
2cheer upto-infinitiveFather not said herethe young manvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent man=Patient
3invitepastFather not said heremanvn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4sup not said to happento-infinitiveman not said herethe first innwith fathervn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5comepastfeet = footthe first inn not said herevn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location inn=Theme
6think speech: othergerundman not said herevn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7causepast · progressivehunger and povertythe stranger's troublevn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition trouble=Patient
8troublethe strangernom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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