The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 101

He was indeed greatly minded to make friends with this being called “man,” so, taking the form of an old field labourer, he entered the service of a farmer.

Who acts: householder · What happens: be, make, call, take, enter, form · To what, where: friends, this, form, service, old field labourer, farmer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (householder), 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	5 minded	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 minded	cop
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 minded	advmod
4	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	5 minded	advmod
5	minded	minded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 minded	xcomp
8	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 make	obj
9	with	with	SCONJ	_	12 called	mark
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 called	nsubj:pass
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 called	aux:pass
12	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 make	advcl
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 man	punct
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 called	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 man	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 man	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	12 called	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 taking	punct
19	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 minded	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 form	det
21	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 taking	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	26 labourer	case
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 labourer	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 labourer	amod
25	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 labourer	compound
26	labourer	labourer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 form	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 entered	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 entered	nsubj
29	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 minded	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 service	det
31	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 entered	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 farmer	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 farmer	det
34	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 service	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 minded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	householder		greatly, indeed, minded property	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive	householder not said here	friends		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product
3	call	gerund · passive		this		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	take	gerund	householder not said here	the form of a old field labourer		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
5	enter	past	householder	the service of a farmer		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination
6	form			a old field labourer		nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient
7	service			a farmer		nom service «act 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 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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