The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 63

It was all very well to plan, and even to station a watchman behind every bush, but it was of no use, for the man was never caught.

Who acts: cage · What happens: be, not catch · To what, where: 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 (cage), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 plan	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 plan	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 plan	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 plan	mark
7	plan	plan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 watchman	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 watchman	cc
10	even	even	ADV	_	12 station	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 station	mark
12	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 watchman	compound
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 watchman	det
14	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plan	obl
15	behind	behind	ADP	_	17 bush	case
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 bush	det
17	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 watchman	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 use	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 use	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 use	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 use	cop
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 use	case
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 use	det
24	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 watchman	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 caught	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 caught	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 man	det
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 caught	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 caught	aux:pass
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 caught	advmod
31	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 plan	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 plan	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	cage		a station watchman behind every bush but no use obl; plan, well property	tree rules
2	is	past	cage		of no use	tree rules
3	not catch	past · passive		the 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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