The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 118
Next morning he set to work to fulfil his good resolutions.
Who acts: master · What happens: set, work, fulfil, resolve · To what, where: good resolutions
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 work | mark |
| 6 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 set | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 fulfil | mark |
| 8 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 work | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 resolutions | nmod:poss |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 resolutions | amod |
| 11 | resolutions | resolution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fulfil | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | master | morning | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | master not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fulfil | to-infinitive | master not said here | master's good resolutions | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | resolve | master | nom resolution «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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