The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 56

He trotted back to the cottage with his empty basket and told his tale, but the youth did not seem as pleased to hear as the fox was to tell.

Who acts: fox, youth · What happens: trot back, tell, not seem, be, hear · To what, where: cottage, tale · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fox, youth), 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	2 trotted	nsubj
2	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 trotted	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 cottage	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cottage	det
6	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trotted	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 basket	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 basket	nmod:poss
9	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 basket	amod
10	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cottage	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 trotted	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tale	nmod:poss
14	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	iobj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seem	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 seem	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 youth	det
18	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seem	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seem	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 seem	advmod
21	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 trotted	conj
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 pleased	advmod
23	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 seem	xcomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 hear	mark
25	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 pleased	xcomp
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 fox	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fox	det
28	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hear	obl
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 pleased	cop
30	to	to	PART	_	31 tell	mark
31	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 was	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 trotted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	trot back	past	fox		the cottage with fox's empty basket		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cottage=Destination
2	tell speech: assert	past	fox not said here	fox's tale			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
3	not seem	past · do-support	the youth				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	the youth not said here			pleased property	tree rules
5	hear	to-infinitive	the youth not said here			as the fox	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the youth not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	tell		fox				nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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