The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 61

He had never seen him before, that was certain; but what mattered much more was how to catch him, and what should be done with him when he was caught?

Who acts: man, that · What happens: not see, be, matter, do, catch · To what, where: king, man

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, that), 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 seen	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 seen	advmod
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seen	obj
6	before	before	ADV	_	4 seen	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 certain	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 certain	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 certain	cop
10	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seen	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 mattered	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 mattered	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 mattered	nsubj
14	mattered	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	conj
15	much	much	ADV	_	16 more	advmod
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 catch	advmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 catch	cop
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 catch	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 catch	mark
20	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 mattered	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 catch	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 done	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 done	cc
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 done	obj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 done	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 done	aux:pass
27	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 seen	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 done	obl
30	when	when	SCONJ	_	33 caught	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 caught	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 caught	aux:pass
33	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 done	advcl
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not see	past · perfect	man	king	before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	is	past	that		certain property	tree rules
3	matter	past				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	past			catch property	tree rules
5	do	should · passive	man not said here		with man	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality
6	catch	past · passive		man		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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