The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 57

His work did not seem hard, for he had only two horses and a cow to see after, and though he had been hired for a year, the year consisted of but three days, so that it was not long before he received his wages.

Who acts: work, Peter, year · What happens: not seem, have, see, hire, consist, not be · To what, where: two horses, Peter, wages

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (work, Peter, year), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 work	nmod:poss
2	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seem	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seem	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 seem	advmod
5	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seem	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 had	case
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seem	parataxis
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 two	advmod
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 horses	nummod
13	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cow	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cow	det
16	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 horses	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 see	mark
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 cow	acl
19	after	after	ADV	_	18 see	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hired	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hired	cc
22	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 hired	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hired	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 hired	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 hired	aux:pass
26	hired	hire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 had	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 year	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 year	det
29	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hired	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 consisted	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 year	det
32	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 consisted	nsubj
33	consisted	consist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 days	case
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 days	cc
36	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 days	nummod
37	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 consisted	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 long	punct
39	so	so	ADV	_	44 long	advmod
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 long	mark
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 long	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 long	cop
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 long	advmod
44	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	47 received	advmod
45	before	before	SCONJ	_	47 received	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 received	nsubj
47	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seem	advcl
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 wages	nmod:poss
49	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 received	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not seem	past · do-support	Peter's work			hard property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	Peter	two horses and a cow			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
3	see	to-infinitive	Peter not said here			after property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	hire	past · perfect · passive		Peter	year		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	consist	past	the year		day		tree rules
6	not is	past	work			long property	tree rules
7	receive	past	Peter	Peter's wages			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wage=Theme
8	work		Peter				nom work «act 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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