The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 72

“I have gained a nut as my wages, and when I cracked it this crowd of beasts came out, and I don’t know what to do with them all!”

Who acts: Peter, crowd · What happens: gain, crack, come out, not know, do · To what, where: nut · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Peter, crowd), 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	_	4 gained	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 gained	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gained	aux
4	gained	gain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 nut	det
6	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gained	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 wages	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wages	nmod:poss
9	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 nut	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 cracked	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 cracked	nsubj
14	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 came	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cracked	obj
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 crowd	det
17	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 beasts	case
19	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 crowd	nmod
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gained	parataxis
21	out	out	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 know	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 know	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 know	nsubj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 know	aux
26	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 know	advmod
27	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 came	conj
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 do	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 do	mark
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 know	ccomp
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 do	obl
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 them	nmod:unmarked
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 gained	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 gained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gain in a quote	present · perfect	Peter	a nut	as my wages	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme
2	crack in a quote	past	Peter	nut		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	come out in a quote	past	this crowd of beasts		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	not know in a quote	present · do-support	Peter			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do in a quote	to-infinitive			with beasts = beast	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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