The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 95

The old people were very unhappy at the thought that they must part with him, but they said nothing, and began to collect all that he would want for his travels, and were careful to add a pair of new boots.

Who acts: old people, people, king · What happens: be, part, say, begin, collect, want · To what, where: thought, nothing, pair · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old people, people, king), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 unhappy	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unhappy	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 unhappy	advmod
6	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 thought	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thought	det
9	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 unhappy	obl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 part	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 part	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 part	aux
13	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thought	ccomp
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 part	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unhappy	parataxis
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 said	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 began	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 began	cc
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 collect	mark
25	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 want	det:predet
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 want	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 want	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 want	aux
30	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 collect	ccomp
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 travels	mark
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 travels	nmod:poss
33	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 want	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 careful	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 careful	cc
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 careful	cop
37	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 unhappy	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 add	mark
39	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 careful	advcl
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 pair	det
41	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 add	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 boots	case
43	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 boots	amod
44	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 pair	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 unhappy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old people		the thought	unhappy property	tree rules
2	part	must	people			with king	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	people	nothing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
4	begin	past	people not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	collect	to-infinitive	people not said here				tree rules
6	want	would	king				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	travel	present	king not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is	past	the old people not said here			careful property	tree rules
9	add speech: assert	to-infinitive	the old people not said here	a pair of new boots			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient

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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