The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 53

He had been very careful in choosing his tutors and governors when he was a boy, and when he became a youth he sent him to travel, so that he might see the ways of other people, and find that they were often as good as his own.

Who acts: father, tutors · What happens: be, choose, become, send, travel, see · To what, where: tutors, boy, youth, ways · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (father, tutors), 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 careful	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 careful	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 careful	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 careful	advmod
5	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	SCONJ	_	7 choosing	mark
7	choosing	choose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 careful	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tutors	nmod:poss
9	tutors	tutor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 choosing	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 governors	cc
11	governors	governor	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tutors	conj
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 boy	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 boy	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 boy	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 boy	det
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 choosing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 became	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 became	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 became	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 became	nsubj
21	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 careful	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 youth	det
23	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 became	xcomp
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sent	nsubj
25	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 youth	acl:relcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sent	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 travel	mark
28	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 sent	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 see	punct
30	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 see	mark
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 so	fixed
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 see	nsubj
33	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 see	aux
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 travel	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ways	det
36	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 see	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 people	case
38	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 people	amod
39	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 ways	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 find	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 find	cc
42	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 careful	parataxis
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 good	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 good	nsubj
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 good	cop
46	often	often	ADV	_	48 good	advmod
47	as	as	ADV	_	48 good	advmod
48	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 find	ccomp
49	as	as	ADP	_	51 own	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 own	nmod:poss
51	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 good	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 careful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	father		careful property	tree rules
2	choose	gerund	father not said here	father's tutors and governors		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tutor=Theme
3	is a	past	father	a boy		tree rules
4	become	past	father	a youth		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	send	past	father	youth		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	travel	to-infinitive	father not said here			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	see	might	father	the ways of other people		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
8	find	infinitive				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
9	is	past	tutors = tutor		as father's own; good, often property	tree rules

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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