The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 50

So they went off, amusing themselves by thinking what was in store for Paul.

Who acts: trees · What happens: go off, amuse, think, be · To what, where: trees, store · 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 (trees), 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 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 went	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 amusing	punct
6	amusing	amuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 amusing	obj
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 thinking	mark
9	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 amusing	advcl
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 store	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 store	cop
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 store	case
13	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thinking	ccomp
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 Paul	case
15	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 store	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go off	past	trees = tree				vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	amuse	gerund	trees = tree not said here	trees = tree			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer
3	think speech: other	gerund	trees = tree not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past			store	for Paul	tree rules

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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