The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 53

Now the fox was particularly fond of young magpies, and he set about making a plan by which he could have one for dinner.

Who acts: fox · What happens: be, set, make, have · To what, where: plan, 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 (fox), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 fond	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fond	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fond	cop
5	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	6 fond	advmod
6	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 magpies	case
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 magpies	amod
9	magpies	magpie	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fond	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 set	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 set	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 set	nsubj
13	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fond	conj
14	about	about	SCONJ	_	15 making	mark
15	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 set	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 plan	det
17	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 making	obj
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 have	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 plan	acl:relcl
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 have	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 dinner	case
25	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 one	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fox		now	of young magpies; fond, particularly property	tree rules
2	set	past	fox				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	make	gerund	fox not said here	a plan			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plan=Product
4	have	could	fox	one		by a plan; for dinner	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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