The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 109
So much did he practice that in the long run he became a wonderful shot, and was heard of even where he had never been seen.
Who acts: father, practice · What happens: do, practice, become, hear, not see · To what, where: wonderful shot, long run, father
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 (father, practice), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 practice | nsubj |
| 5 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 became | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 run | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 run | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 run | amod |
| 10 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 became | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 became | nsubj |
| 12 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 practice | acl:relcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shot | det |
| 14 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shot | amod |
| 15 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 became | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 heard | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 heard | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 heard | aux:pass |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | conj |
| 20 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 27 seen | mark |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 27 seen | advmod |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 seen | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 seen | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 seen | aux |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 seen | advmod |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 seen | aux:pass |
| 27 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 heard | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | practice | father | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | become | past | practice | a wonderful shot | in the long run result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in run=Result | |||
| 4 | hear | past · passive | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» | ||||||
| 5 | not see | past · perfect · passive | father | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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