The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 78

The crab understood that it was no use her scolding, so she resolved to try what cunning would do.

Who acts: crab, notice, few, cunning · What happens: understand, be, resolve, try, do, scold · To what, where: use

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crab, notice, few, cunning), 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 crab	det
2	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 understood	nsubj
3	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 use	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 use	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 use	cop
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 use	det
8	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 understood	ccomp
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 scolding	nmod:poss
10	scolding	scolding	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 use	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 resolved	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 resolved	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 resolved	nsubj
14	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 understood	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 try	mark
16	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 resolved	xcomp
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 do	obj
18	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 do	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 do	aux
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 try	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	understand	past	the crab		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	notice	no use	tree rules
3	resolve	past	few		tree rules
4	try	to-infinitive	few not said here		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	do	would	cunning		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	scold		few		nom scolding «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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