The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 107
Rasmus was quite content to look after sheep, as his father had done before him, but Niels had a fancy to be a hunter, and was not happy till he got hold of a gun and learned to shoot.
Who acts: Rasmus, father, Niels · What happens: be, look, do, have, not be, get · To what, where: fancy, hunter, hold, gun
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rasmus, father, Niels), 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 | Rasmus | Rasmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 content | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 content | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 content | advmod |
| 4 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 content | advcl |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 sheep | case |
| 8 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 look | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 done | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 done | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 done | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 content | conj |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 done | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 19 | Niels | Niels | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 content | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 fancy | det |
| 22 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 hunter | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 hunter | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 hunter | det |
| 26 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 happy | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 happy | cc |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 happy | cop |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 happy | advmod |
| 31 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 content | parataxis |
| 32 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 34 got | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 got | nsubj |
| 34 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 happy | advcl |
| 35 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 got | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 gun | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 gun | det |
| 38 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hold | nmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 learned | cc |
| 40 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 got | conj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 shoot | mark |
| 42 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 learned | xcomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 content | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Rasmus | content property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | Rasmus not said here | after sheep | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | Rasmus's father | before Rasmus | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Niels | a fancy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | Niels not said here | a hunter | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not is | past | happy property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | get | past | Rasmus | hold of a gun | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | learn | past | Rasmus not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | shoot | to-infinitive | Rasmus not said here | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | hold | a gun | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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