The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 111

The parents of Rasmus and Niels were good Catholics, and when they were getting old the mother took it into her head that she would like to go to Rome and see the Pope.

Who acts: parents, Catholics, good Catholics, mother · What happens: be, get, take, like, go, see · To what, where: good Catholics, old mother, reason, head, Rome, Pope

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 (parents, Catholics, good Catholics, mother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 parents	det
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 Catholics	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Rasmus	case
4	Rasmus	Rasmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 parents	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Niels	cc
6	Niels	Niels	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Rasmus	conj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Catholics	cop
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Catholics	amod
9	Catholics	Catholic	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 took	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 getting	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 getting	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 getting	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 getting	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 getting	aux
15	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 took	csubj
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mother	amod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mother	det
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 getting	obj
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 took	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 head	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 like	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 like	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 like	aux
27	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 took	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 go	mark
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 like	xcomp
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 Rome	case
31	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 go	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 see	cc
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 go	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Pope	det
35	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 see	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	the parents of Rasmus and Niels	good Catholics		tree rules
2	get	past · progressive	Catholics = catholic	the old mother		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus
3	take	past	good Catholics	reason	mother's head	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into head=Destination
4	like	would	mother			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	mother not said here		Rome	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rome=Initial_Location
6	see	infinitive	mother not said here	the Pope		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pope=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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