The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 3

So he told his story much the same as the others did (Niels was not very particular), and thought he had escaped all further trouble, when Rasmus put in his word.

Who acts: Niels, others, Rasmus · What happens: tell, do, not be, think, escape, put · To what, where: story, further trouble, word · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Niels, others, Rasmus), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 story	nmod:poss
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
6	much	much	ADV	_	8 same	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 same	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 told	xcomp
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 did	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 others	det
11	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 did	nsubj
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	advcl
13	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 particular	punct
14	Niels	Niels	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 particular	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 particular	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 particular	advmod
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 particular	advmod
18	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 did	parataxis
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 particular	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thought	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 thought	cc
22	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 escaped	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 escaped	aux
25	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 thought	ccomp
26	all	all	ADV	_	27 further	advmod
27	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 trouble	amod
28	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 escaped	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 put	punct
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 put	advmod
31	Rasmus	Rasmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 put	nsubj
32	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 thought	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 word	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 word	nmod:poss
35	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 put	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Niels	Niels's story		same property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2	do	past	the others				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is	past	Niels			particular property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	past					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	escape	past · perfect	Niels	further trouble			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trouble=Initial_Location
6	put	past	Rasmus		Niels's word		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in word=Destination
7	word		Niels				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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