The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 60

“It will not be easy to find another tree that would make such good snow-shoes,” answered the fox, cocking his head on one side, and gazing at the tree thoughtfully; “but I do not like to be ill-natured, so if you will give me one of your young ones I will seek my snow-shoes elsewhere.”

Who acts: tree, fox, you · What happens: not be, find, make, answer, cock, gaze · To what, where: tree, such good snow shoes, head, one side, one, fox · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (tree, fox, you), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 easy	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 easy	expl
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 easy	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 easy	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 easy	cop
6	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 answered	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 find	mark
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 easy	csubj
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 make	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 make	aux
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tree	acl:relcl
14	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 shoes	amod
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 shoes	amod
16	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shoes	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 snow	punct
18	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 make	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 easy	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 easy	punct
21	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fox	det
23	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 answered	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cocking	punct
25	cocking	cock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 answered	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 head	nmod:poss
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cocking	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 side	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 side	nummod
30	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cocking	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 gazing	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 gazing	cc
33	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 cocking	conj
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 tree	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 tree	det
36	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gazing	obl
37	thoughtfully	thoughtfully	ADV	_	33 gazing	advmod
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 like	punct
39	“	"	PUNCT	_	44 like	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 like	cc
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 like	nsubj
42	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 like	aux
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 like	advmod
44	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 answered	ccomp
45	to	to	PART	_	47 ill	mark
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 ill	cop
47	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 like	xcomp
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 natured	punct
49	natured	natured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 ill	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 seek	punct
51	so	so	ADV	_	64 seek	advmod
52	if	if	SCONJ	_	55 give	mark
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	55 give	nsubj
54	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 give	aux
55	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 seek	advcl
56	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 give	iobj
57	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	55 give	obj
58	of	of	ADP	_	61 ones	case
59	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 ones	nmod:poss
60	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 ones	amod
61	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 one	nmod
62	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	64 seek	nsubj
63	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 seek	aux
64	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 like	conj
65	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	68 shoes	nmod:poss
66	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 shoes	compound
67	-	-	PUNCT	_	66 snow	punct
68	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 seek	obj
69	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	64 seek	advmod
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	44 like	punct
71	”	"	PUNCT	_	44 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	future					easy property	tree rules
2	find in a quote	to-infinitive		another tree				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic
3	make in a quote	would	another tree	such good snow shoes				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shoe=Product
4	answer speech: assert	past	the fox					tree rules
5	cock	gerund	the fox not said here	fox's head		one side		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
6	gaze	gerund	the fox not said here				at the tree; thoughtfully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tree=Theme
7	not like in a quote	present · do-support	the fox = fox					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
8	is not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the fox = fox not said here				ill property	tree rules
9	be in a quote		the fox = fox not said here					tree rules
10	give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you	one of your young ones	the fox = fox			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient one=Theme
11	seek in a quote	future	the fox = fox	my snow shoes			elsewhere property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=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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