The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 10

The tradesman was much troubled as to what to do with the animal, and it was only towards morning that he managed to get any sleep; but when he opened his eyes again there was no tanuki, only the old kettle he had left there the night before.

Who acts: tradesman, Jimmu, tanuki · What happens: be, do, manage, get, open, leave · To what, where: sleep, eyes, old kettle

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tradesman, Jimmu, tanuki), 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 tradesman	det
2	tradesman	tradesman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 troubled	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 troubled	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 troubled	advmod
5	troubled	troubled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	8 what	case
7	to	to	ADP	_	6 as	fixed
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 troubled	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 what	acl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 animal	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 animal	det
13	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 morning	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 morning	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 morning	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 morning	cop
18	only	only	ADV	_	20 morning	advmod
19	towards	towards	ADP	_	20 morning	case
20	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 troubled	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 managed	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 managed	nsubj
23	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 morning	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 get	mark
25	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 managed	xcomp
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	27 sleep	det
27	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 get	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 was	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 was	cc
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 opened	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 opened	nsubj
32	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 was	advcl
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 eyes	nmod:poss
34	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 opened	obj
35	again	again	ADV	_	32 opened	advmod
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 was	expl
37	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 troubled	parataxis
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 tanuki	det
39	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 was	nsubj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 kettle	punct
41	only	only	ADV	_	44 kettle	advmod
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 kettle	det
43	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 kettle	amod
44	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 tanuki	appos
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 left	nsubj
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 left	aux
47	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 kettle	acl:relcl
48	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 left	advmod
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 night	det
50	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 left	obl:unmarked
51	before	before	ADV	_	47 left	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 troubled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the tradesman				troubled property	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the tradesman not said here				with the animal	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	tradesman			towards morning		tree rules
4	manage	past	Jimmu					vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	get	to-infinitive	Jimmu not said here	any sleep				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sleep=Stimulus
6	open	past	Jimmu	Jimmu's eyes		again		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
7	be	past	no tanuki		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	leave	past · perfect	Jimmu	the old kettle not said here	there	night	before property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kettle=Theme

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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