The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 4

They had everything they could possibly desire for their comfort, they were well fed and well lodged, and if by any chance an unlucky mouse was stupid enough to venture in their way, they caught it, not to eat it, but for the pure pleasure of catching it.

Who acts: animals, unlucky mouse · What happens: have, desire, feed, lodge, be, venture · To what, where: everything, animals, way, mouse

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animals, unlucky mouse), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 had	obj
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 desire	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 desire	aux
6	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	7 desire	advmod
7	desire	desire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 everything	acl:relcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 comfort	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 comfort	nmod:poss
10	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 desire	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fed	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fed	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fed	aux:pass
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 fed	advmod
15	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lodged	cc
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 lodged	advmod
18	lodged	lodge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 fed	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 stupid	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 stupid	cc
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 stupid	mark
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 chance	case
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 chance	det
24	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stupid	obl
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 mouse	det
26	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 mouse	amod
27	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stupid	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 stupid	cop
29	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	parataxis
30	enough	enough	ADV	_	29 stupid	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 venture	mark
32	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 stupid	advcl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 way	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 way	nmod:poss
35	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 venture	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 caught	punct
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 caught	nsubj
38	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 caught	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 eat	punct
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 eat	advmod
42	to	to	PART	_	43 eat	mark
43	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	38 caught	parataxis
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 eat	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 pleasure	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 pleasure	cc
47	for	for	ADP	_	50 pleasure	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 pleasure	det
49	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 pleasure	amod
50	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 eat	parataxis
51	of	of	SCONJ	_	52 catching	mark
52	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 pleasure	advcl
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 catching	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	animals = animal	everything			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
2	desire	could	animals = animal			for animals's comfort; possibly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	feed	past · passive		animals = animal		well property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
4	lodge	participle				well property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a condition, not said to happen	past	a unlucky mouse			by any chance; enough, stupid property	tree rules
6	venture	to-infinitive	a unlucky mouse not said here		animals's way		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
7	catch	past	animals = animal	mouse			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	not eat	to-infinitive		mouse			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
9	catch	gerund		mouse			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
10	comfort		animals = animal				nom comfort «state 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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