The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 98

His eyes were of no use to him here, for he could not have stared ten wild boars in the face at once; so he kept on playing, and the wild boars danced very slowly, as if in a minuet, then by degrees he played faster and faster till they could hardly twist and turn quickly enough, and ended by all falling over each other in a heap, quite exhausted and out of breath.

Who acts: eyes, shepherd, wild boars, boars · What happens: be, not stare, keep, play, dance, twist · To what, where: shepherd, ten wild boars, face, each

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 (eyes, shepherd, wild boars, boars), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 use	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 use	cop
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 use	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 use	det
6	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 use	nmod
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 use	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stared	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 stared	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stared	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 stared	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 stared	advmod
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 stared	aux
16	stared	stare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 use	parataxis
17	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 boars	nummod
18	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 boars	amod
19	boars	boar	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stared	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 face	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 face	det
22	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 boars	nmod
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 once	case
24	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 stared	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 kept	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 kept	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 kept	nsubj
28	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stared	parataxis
29	on	on	SCONJ	_	30 playing	mark
30	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 kept	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 danced	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 danced	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 boars	det
34	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 boars	amod
35	boars	boar	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 danced	nsubj
36	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 kept	conj
37	very	very	ADV	_	38 slowly	advmod
38	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	36 danced	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 minuet	punct
40	as	as	ADP	_	44 minuet	case
41	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 minuet	mark
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 minuet	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 minuet	det
44	minuet	minuet	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 danced	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 played	punct
46	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 played	advmod
47	by	by	ADP	_	48 degrees	case
48	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 played	obl
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 played	nsubj
50	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 minuet	conj
51	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	50 played	advmod
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 faster	cc
53	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	51 faster	conj
54	till	till	SCONJ	_	58 twist	mark
55	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 twist	nsubj
56	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 twist	aux
57	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	58 twist	advmod
58	twist	twist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 played	advcl
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 turn	cc
60	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 twist	conj
61	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	60 turn	advmod
62	enough	enough	ADV	_	60 turn	advmod
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 ended	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 ended	cc
65	ended	end	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 kept	conj
66	by	by	SCONJ	_	68 falling	mark
67	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	68 falling	det
68	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	65 ended	advcl
69	over	over	ADP	_	70 each	case
70	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	68 falling	obl
71	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 each	fixed
72	in	in	ADP	_	74 heap	case
73	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	74 heap	det
74	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 falling	obl
75	,	,	PUNCT	_	77 exhausted	punct
76	quite	quite	ADV	_	77 exhausted	advmod
77	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	65 ended	parataxis
78	and	and	CCONJ	_	81 breath	cc
79	out	out	ADP	_	81 breath	case
80	of	of	ADP	_	81 breath	case
81	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 exhausted	conj
82	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	shepherd's eyes		shepherd	here		of no use	tree rules
2	not stare	could · perfect	shepherd	ten wild boars		the face			tree rules
3	keep	past	shepherd						vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	play	gerund	shepherd not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	dance	past	the wild boars					as a minuet; slowly property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	play	past	shepherd				then	by degrees; fast property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	twist	could	boars = boar					hardly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
8	turn	infinitive	boars = boar not said here					enough, quickly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
9	end	participle	shepherd not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
10	fall	gerund	shepherd not said here			each		in a heap	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over each=Location
11	exhaust	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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