The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 108

It was only an old muzzle-loading flint-lock after all, but Niels thought it a great prize, and went about shooting at everything he could see.

Who acts: hold, Niels, father · What happens: be, think, go, shoot, see · To what, where: old loading flint lock, hold, everything

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 (hold, Niels, father), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lock	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lock	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	11 lock	advmod
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lock	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lock	amod
6	muzzle	muzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 loading	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 muzzle	punct
8	loading	loading	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lock	compound
9	flint	flint	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lock	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 flint	punct
11	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 lock	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 thought	cc
16	Niels	Niels	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 thought	nsubj
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lock	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thought	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 prize	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 prize	amod
21	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thought	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 thought	conj
25	about	about	SCONJ	_	26 shooting	mark
26	shooting	shoot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 went	advcl
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 everything	case
28	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	26 shooting	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 see	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 see	aux
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 everything	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 lock	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	past	hold	a old loading flint lock		after all	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	Niels	hold			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme prize=Attribute
3	go	past	Niels not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shoot	gerund	Niels not said here		everything		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at everything=Destination
5	see	could	father				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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