The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 42

This made the two soldiers more envious still, and they began to hatch another plot.

Who acts: This, soldiers · What happens: make, begin, hatch · To what, where: two soldiers, plot

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, soldiers), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soldiers	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 soldiers	nummod
5	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 envious	advmod
7	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	advcl
8	still	still	ADV	_	7 envious	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 hatch	mark
14	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 plot	det
16	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hatch	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	past	This	the two soldiers	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soldier=Product
2	begin	past	soldiers = soldier		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	hatch	to-infinitive	soldiers = soldier not said here	another plot	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent plot=Product

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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