The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 31

They were all fine young men, and fond of hunting, and scarcely a day passed without one or other of them going out to look for game.

Who acts: cares · What happens: be, pass, go out, look · To what, where: fine young men, day

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cares), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 men	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 men	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	6 men	advmod
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 men	amod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 men	amod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fond	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fond	cc
9	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 men	amod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 hunting	case
11	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fond	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 day	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 day	cc
14	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	16 day	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 men	nmod
17	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 day	acl
18	without	without	ADP	_	19 one	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 passed	obl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 other	cc
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 one	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 other	obl
24	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 passed	conj
25	out	out	ADV	_	24 going	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 look	mark
27	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 going	advcl
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 game	case
29	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 look	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 men	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	cares = care	fine young men	day	all property	tree rules
2	pass	participle		a day not said here		without one	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go out	gerund				out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	to-infinitive				for game	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for game=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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