The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 75

In his trouble Peter would have promised far harder things than this, so he gladly gave the promise Eisenkopf asked for; and at a whistle from the stranger the animals all began crowding into the nut again, nearly tumbling over each other in their haste.

Who acts: Peter, Eisenkopf, son · What happens: promise, give, ask, begin, crowd, tumble · To what, where: Peter, trouble, promise, whistle, nut, each

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, Eisenkopf, son), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 trouble	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 trouble	nmod:poss
3	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 promised	obl
4	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 promised	nsubj:pass
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 promised	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 promised	aux
7	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 harder	advmod
9	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 things	amod
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 promised	obj
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 this	case
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 things	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 gave	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	nsubj
16	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	17 gave	advmod
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 promised	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 promise	det
19	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
20	Eisenkopf	Eisenkopf	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 asked	nsubj
21	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 promise	acl:relcl
22	for	for	ADP	_	21 asked	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 began	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 began	cc
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 whistle	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 whistle	det
27	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 began	obl
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 stranger	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 stranger	det
30	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 whistle	nmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 animals	det
32	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 stranger	conj
33	all	all	ADV	_	34 began	advmod
34	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gave	conj
35	crowding	crowd	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 began	xcomp
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 nut	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 nut	det
38	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 crowding	obl
39	again	again	ADV	_	35 crowding	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 tumbling	punct
41	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	42 tumbling	advmod
42	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 crowding	conj
43	over	over	ADP	_	44 each	case
44	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	42 tumbling	obl
45	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 each	fixed
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 haste	case
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 haste	nmod:poss
48	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 tumbling	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	would · perfect · passive		Peter	son's trouble			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal thing=Theme
2	give	past	Peter	the promise			gladly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	Eisenkopf	the promise not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent promise=Recipient
4	begin	past	Peter not said here		a whistle from the stranger and the animals		all property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	crowd	gerund	Peter not said here		the nut	again		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into nut=Destination
6	tumble	gerund	Peter not said here		each		in animals's haste; nearly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in haste=Attribute
7	trouble		son					nom trouble «cognition transitive»: 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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