The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 14

However, the servants were very kind to him, and their children brought him fruit and all sorts of nice things, and he soon grew merry again, and lived amongst them for many years till his seventeenth birthday.

Who acts: servants, children, boy · What happens: be, bring, grow, live, sort · To what, where: boy, fruit, nice things

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, children, boy), 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	However	however	ADV	_	7 kind	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 servants	det
4	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kind	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kind	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 kind	advmod
7	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kind	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 brought	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 brought	cc
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 children	nmod:poss
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 brought	nsubj
14	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kind	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 brought	obj
16	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brought	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sorts	cc
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 sorts	det
19	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fruit	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 things	case
21	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 things	amod
22	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sorts	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 grew	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 grew	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 grew	nsubj
26	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 grew	advmod
27	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kind	parataxis
28	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 grew	xcomp
29	again	again	ADV	_	28 merry	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lived	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lived	cc
32	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 grew	conj
33	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 lived	obl
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 years	case
36	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 years	amod
37	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 lived	obl
38	till	till	ADP	_	41 birthday	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 birthday	nmod:poss
40	seventeenth	seventeenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 birthday	compound
41	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lived	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the servants		boy		however, kind property	tree rules
2	bring	past	servants's children	fruit and all sorts of nice things	boy			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination fruit=Theme
3	grow	past	boy				merry, soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	live	past	boy not said here			till boy's seventeenth birthday; year	amongst servants = servant	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme amongst they=Location
5	sort			nice things				nom sort «cognition 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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