The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 8

He was rather dull, for he had never learned how to amuse himself, and was peeping through the closed blinds to see what was going on in the street, when a little carriage passed by, drawn by servants dressed in blue and silver.

Who acts: cutter, servants · What happens: be, not learn, amuse, peep, close, see · To what, where: cutter, street, little carriage, servants, blue · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (cutter, servants), 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 dull	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dull	cop
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	4 dull	advmod
4	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 learned	punct
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 learned	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 learned	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 learned	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 learned	advmod
10	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 dull	parataxis
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 amuse	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 amuse	mark
13	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 learned	xcomp
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 amuse	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 peeping	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 peeping	cc
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 peeping	aux
18	peeping	peep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 dull	advcl
19	through	through	ADP	_	22 blinds	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 blinds	det
21	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 blinds	amod
22	blinds	blind	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 peeping	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 see	mark
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 peeping	advcl
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 going	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 going	aux
27	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 see	ccomp
28	on	on	ADP	_	27 going	compound:prt
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 street	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 street	det
31	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 going	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 drawn	punct
33	when	when	SCONJ	_	40 drawn	mark
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 carriage	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 carriage	amod
36	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 drawn	nsubj:pass
37	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 carriage	acl
38	by	by	ADP	_	37 passed	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 drawn	punct
40	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dull	conj
41	by	by	ADP	_	42 servants	case
42	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 drawn	obl
43	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 servants	acl
44	in	in	ADP	_	45 blue	case
45	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 dressed	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 silver	cc
47	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 blue	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dull	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	cutter			dull property	tree rules
2	not learn	past · perfect	cutter				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	amuse	to-infinitive	cutter not said here	cutter			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
4	peep	past · progressive	cutter not said here			through the closed blinds	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through blind=Theme
5	close	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	see	to-infinitive	cutter not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	go on	past · progressive			the street		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in street=Location
8	pass by	participle		a little carriage not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	draw	participle · passive	servants	a little carriage			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
10	dress	participle		servants not said here	blue		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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