The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 11

However, many boys might think it better fun to begin to learn hunting as soon as they can walk.

Who acts: many boys, boys · What happens: think, begin, learn, walk · To what, where: chance, hunting

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many boys, boys), 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	_	6 think	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boys	amod
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 think	nsubj
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 think	obj
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 fun	amod
9	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 think	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 begin	mark
11	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fun	acl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 learn	mark
13	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 begin	xcomp
14	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 learn	obj
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 soon	advmod
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 learn	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 walk	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 walk	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 walk	aux
20	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 soon	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	might	many boys	chance	however property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme fun=Attribute
2	begin	to-infinitive	many boys not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	learn	to-infinitive	many boys not said here	hunting	soon property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunting=Topic
4	walk	can	boys = boy			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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