The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 104

Meanwhile Paul, mad with rage at the ingratitude of the three sisters, vowed he would be revenged upon them, and set about finding some way of getting back to earth.

Who acts: Paul, way · What happens: vow, revenge, set, find, get back · To what, where: Paul, way

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paul, way), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	2 Paul	advmod
2	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 vowed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mad	punct
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Paul	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 rage	case
6	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mad	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 ingratitude	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ingratitude	det
9	ingratitude	ingratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mad	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 sisters	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sisters	det
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 sisters	nummod
13	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ingratitude	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Paul	punct
15	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 revenged	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 revenged	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 revenged	aux:pass
19	revenged	revenge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 vowed	ccomp
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 revenged	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 set	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 set	cc
24	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 revenged	conj
25	about	about	SCONJ	_	26 finding	mark
26	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 set	advcl
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 way	det
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 finding	obj
29	of	of	SCONJ	_	30 getting	mark
30	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 way	acl
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 getting	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 earth	case
33	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 back	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 vowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	vow	past	Paul			tree rules
2	revenge	would · passive		Paul	upon heads = head	tree rules
3	set	infinitive				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	find	gerund		some way		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
5	get back	gerund	some way not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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