The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 99

He did not know where to look for a dinner, as he guessed that the crow would have flown back before him, and put every one on their guard.

Who acts: fox · What happens: not know, look, guess, fly back, put · To what, where: crow, one, guard · 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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 look	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 look	mark
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	ccomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 dinner	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dinner	det
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 guessed	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 guessed	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 guessed	nsubj
14	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 look	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 flown	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 crow	det
17	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flown	nsubj:pass
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 flown	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 flown	aux
20	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 guessed	advcl
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 flown	advmod
22	before	before	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 flown	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 put	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 put	cc
26	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	conj
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 guard	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 guard	nmod:poss
31	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	fox					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	look	to-infinitive					for a dinner	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for dinner=Theme
3	guess	past	fox					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	fly back	would · perfect · passive		the crow		before fox		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme before he=Location
5	put	infinitive	fox not said here	every one	legs's guard			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme on guard=Destination

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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