The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 32

He did not think it looked so unsafe as his servant said; but he had given his word and he held to it.

Who acts: servant, carriage · What happens: not think, look, say, give, hold, word · To what, where: servant, carriage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, carriage), 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	4 think	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 think	advmod
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looked	nsubj
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 think	ccomp
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 unsafe	advmod
8	unsafe	unsafe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 looked	xcomp
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 said	mark
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 servant	nmod:poss
11	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 unsafe	advcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 given	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 given	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 given	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 given	aux
17	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 think	parataxis
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 word	nmod:poss
19	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 given	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 held	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 held	nsubj
22	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 given	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 held	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	past · do-support	servant				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	look	past	carriage			unsafe property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	servant's servant				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	give	past · perfect · passive		servant			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient word=Theme
5	hold	past	servant		carriage		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	word		servant				nom word «communication 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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