The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 81

The old man did not see the use of this, but Maria had so often helped him before that he had confidence in her, so he put the chalk in his pocket and went to the palace.

Who acts: old man, Maria, man · What happens: not see, have, help, put, go, use · To what, where: use, man, confidence, chalk, pocket, palace

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, Maria, 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	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 use	det
8	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 this	case
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 use	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
13	Maria	Maria	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 see	parataxis
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 helped	advmod
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 helped	advmod
17	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 had	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 helped	obj
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	22 had	mark
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 had	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 helped	advcl
23	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 put	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 put	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 put	nsubj
29	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 see	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 chalk	det
31	chalk	chalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 put	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 pocket	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 pocket	nmod:poss
34	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 put	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 went	cc
36	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 put	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 palace	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 palace	det
39	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 went	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not see	past · do-support	the old man	the use of this				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer use=Stimulus
2	have	past	Maria					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	help	past	Maria not said here		man		often property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
4	have	past	man	confidence			in Maria	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=Patient
5	put	past	man	the chalk		man's pocket		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chalk=Theme in pocket=Destination
6	go	past	man not said here			the palace		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
7	use			this				nom use «act 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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