The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 10

He sowed and ploughed all day, except now and then when he took his dogs and went to hunt.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: sow, plough, take, go, hunt · To what, where: dogs

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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 sowed	nsubj
2	sowed	sow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 ploughed	cc
4	ploughed	plough	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sowed	conj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ploughed	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 now	punct
8	except	except	ADP	_	9 now	case
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 ploughed	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 then	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 now	conj
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 took	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 took	nsubj
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sowed	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 dogs	nmod:poss
16	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 took	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 took	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 hunt	mark
20	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 went	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	sow	past	Peter			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	plough	past	Peter not said here		day	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	take	past	Peter	Peter's dogs		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination
4	go	past	Peter not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	hunt	to-infinitive	Peter not said here			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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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