The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 42

The young man agreed to this proposal, but he took care not to get on terms of familiarity with the new comer until he had tried him with the apple.

Who acts: young man, man · What happens: agree, take, care, not get, try, term · To what, where: terms, stranger, familiarity

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man), 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	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 agreed	nsubj
4	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 proposal	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 proposal	det
7	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 agreed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 took	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 agreed	conj
12	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 took	ccomp
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 get	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 get	mark
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 care	ccomp
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 terms	case
17	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 get	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 familiarity	case
19	familiarity	familiarity	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 terms	nmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 comer	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 comer	det
22	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 comer	amod
23	comer	comer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 familiarity	nmod
24	until	until	SCONJ	_	27 tried	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tried	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 tried	aux
27	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 get	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tried	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 apple	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 apple	det
31	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tried	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	the young man			to this proposal	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	man				vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
3	care	infinitive	man not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	not get	to-infinitive	man not said here		terms of familiarity with the new comer		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on term=Source
5	try	past · perfect	man	stranger		with the apple	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Patient with apple=Theme
6	term			familiarity with the new comer			nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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