The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 115
But Niels could not be happy without his gun, and took it all the same.
Who acts: Niels · What happens: not be, take · To what, where: 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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 happy | cc |
| 2 | Niels | Niels | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 happy | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 happy | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 happy | cop |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 gun | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 gun | nmod:poss |
| 9 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happy | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | obj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 same | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 same | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 took | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | could | Niels | without Rasmus's gun; happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Niels not said here | gun | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument it=Theme same=Destination |
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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