The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 97

The shepherd would have given anything to be able to laugh, they looked so funny; but he dared not stop playing, for he knew well enough that the moment he stopped they would fall upon him and tear him to pieces.

Who acts: boars, shepherd, moment · What happens: give, be, laugh, look, stop, play · To what, where: shepherd, moment

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boars, shepherd, moment), 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 shepherd	det
2	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 given	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 given	aux
5	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 given	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 able	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 able	cop
9	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 anything	acl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 laugh	mark
11	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 able	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 looked	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 looked	nsubj
14	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 laugh	advcl
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 funny	advmod
16	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 looked	xcomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 stop	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 stop	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stop	nsubj
20	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 stop	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 dared	advmod
22	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 given	advcl
23	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 stop	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 knew	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 knew	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 knew	nsubj
27	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 given	conj
28	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 knew	advmod
29	enough	enough	ADV	_	27 knew	advmod
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 fall	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 moment	det
32	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fall	nsubj
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 stopped	nsubj
34	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 moment	acl:relcl
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 fall	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 fall	aux
37	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 knew	advcl
38	upon	upon	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 fall	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 tear	cc
41	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 fall	conj
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 tear	obj
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 pieces	case
44	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 tear	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	would · perfect · passive		the shepherd		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient anything=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive			able property	tree rules
3	laugh	to-infinitive				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	past	boars = boar		funny property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	stop	past	shepherd			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	play	gerund	shepherd not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	know	past	shepherd		enough, well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	stop	past	shepherd	the moment not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector moment=Eventuality
9	fall	would	the moment		upon shepherd	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
10	tear	infinitive	the moment not said here	shepherd	to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to piece=Result

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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