The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 38

But the boy did not work; instead, he idled about as before, contenting himself with eating the pears off his tree, which, unlike other pear trees before or since, bore fruit the whole year round.

Who acts: boy · What happens: not work, idle, content, eat, bear · To what, where: Boy, pears, fruit

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	_	6 work	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 work	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 work	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 work	advmod
6	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 idled	punct
8	instead	instead	ADV	_	11 idled	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 instead	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 idled	nsubj
11	idled	idle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 work	parataxis
12	about	about	ADV	_	14 before	advmod
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 before	advmod
14	before	before	ADV	_	11 idled	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 contenting	punct
16	contenting	content	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 idled	advcl
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 contenting	obj
18	with	with	SCONJ	_	19 eating	mark
19	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 contenting	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pears	det
21	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 eating	obj
22	off	off	ADP	_	24 tree	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 tree	nmod:poss
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 eating	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 trees	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 trees	nsubj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 trees	punct
28	unlike	unlike	ADP	_	31 trees	case
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 trees	amod
30	pear	pear	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 trees	compound
31	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 tree	nmod
32	before	before	SCONJ	_	34 since	mark
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 since	cc
34	since	since	ADV	_	31 trees	acl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 bore	punct
36	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 idled	conj
37	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bore	obj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 year	det
39	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 year	amod
40	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bore	obl:unmarked
41	round	round	ADV	_	36 bore	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 work	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not work	past · do-support	the boy				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	idle	past	Boy			before, instead property	tree rules
3	content	gerund	Boy not said here	Boy			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
4	eat	gerund	Boy not said here	the pears		off Boy's tree unlike other pear trees	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pear=Patient
5	bear	past	Boy not said here	fruit	year	round property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=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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