The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 4
Still, he was honest and good-hearted, and if his father had come wrongfully by his wealth he felt he could never enjoy it, and at last he made up his mind to do as he had been bidden.
Who acts: remembrance, father · What happens: be, come, feel, not enjoy, make up, do · To what, where: wealth, mind, last, remembrance
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (remembrance, father), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 5 honest | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 honest | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 honest | cop |
| 5 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hearted | cc |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hearted | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 good | punct |
| 9 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 honest | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 come | cc |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 honest | conj |
| 17 | wrongfully | wrongfully | ADV | _ | 16 come | advmod |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 wealth | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 felt | nsubj |
| 22 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wealth | acl:relcl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 enjoy | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 enjoy | aux |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 enjoy | advmod |
| 26 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 felt | ccomp |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 enjoy | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 made | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 made | cc |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 last | case |
| 31 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 made | obl |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 made | nsubj |
| 33 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 honest | parataxis |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 made | compound:prt |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 mind | nmod:poss |
| 36 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 made | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 do | mark |
| 38 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 made | advcl |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 43 bidden | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 bidden | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 bidden | aux |
| 42 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 43 bidden | aux:pass |
| 43 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 do | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 honest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | remembrance | still | honest property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | remembrance not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | come a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | remembrance's father | by remembrance's wealth; wrongfully property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wealth=Location | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | remembrance | remembrance's wealth not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not enjoy | could | remembrance | wealth | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | make up | past | remembrance | remembrance's mind | last | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||
| 7 | do | to-infinitive | remembrance not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | bid | past · perfect · passive | remembrance | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | mind | remembrance | nom mind «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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