The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 81

He also taught each of us a different trade which he thought might be useful to us, and he bade us not neglect our mother earth, which would be sure amply to repay our labour.”

Who acts: king, different trade · What happens: teach, think, be, not bade, neglect, repay · To what, where: us, mother earth, labour · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, different trade), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taught	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 taught	advmod
3	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 us	det
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 us	case
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 taught	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 trade	det
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trade	amod
9	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 useful	nsubj
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 thought	nsubj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	nsubj
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 trade	acl:relcl
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 useful	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 useful	cop
15	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 taught	ccomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 us	case
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 useful	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bade	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bade	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bade	nsubj
21	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 taught	conj
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 bade	obj
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 bade	advmod
24	neglect	neglect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 bade	advcl
25	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 earth	nmod:poss
26	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 earth	compound
27	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 neglect	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sure	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 sure	ccomp
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 sure	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 sure	cop
32	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 earth	conj
33	amply	amply	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sure	xcomp
34	to	to	PART	_	35 repay	mark
35	repay	repay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 amply	advcl
36	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 labour	nmod:poss
37	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 repay	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 taught	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 taught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past	king			of us	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past	a different trade				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	might	a different trade		us	useful property	tree rules
4	not bade	past	king	us			tree rules
5	neglect	present	king not said here	our mother earth			vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme
6	is	would	king not said here			amply, sure property	tree rules
7	repay	to-infinitive	king not said here	our labour			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent labour=Recipient

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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