The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 21

But they did not mind being alone, and would have been quite happy, if it had not been for a marten, who came every night to their poultry yard, and carried off one of their fowls.

Who acts: men, hut, marten · What happens: not mind, be, have, not be, come, carry off · To what, where: one

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, hut, marten), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 mind	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mind	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mind	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 mind	advmod
5	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 alone	cop
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 mind	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 happy	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 happy	cc
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 happy	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 happy	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 happy	cop
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 happy	advmod
14	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mind	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 had	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mind	advcl
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 marten	advmod
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 marten	cop
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 marten	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 marten	det
23	marten	marten	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 marten	parataxis
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 night	det
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl:unmarked
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 yard	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 yard	nmod:poss
31	poultry	poultry	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 yard	compound
32	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 carried	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 carried	cc
35	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 came	conj
36	off	off	ADP	_	35 carried	compound:prt
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 carried	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 fowls	case
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 fowls	nmod:poss
40	fowls	fowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 one	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not mind	past · do-support	men = man				vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	gerund				alone property	tree rules
3	is	would · perfect	men = man not said here			happy property	tree rules
4	have a condition, not said to happen	past	hut				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	not is	participle				for a marten	tree rules
6	come	past	a marten		night	to men's poultry yard	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to yard=Initial_Location
7	carry off	past	a marten not said here	one of men's fowls			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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