The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 102

Under his care all the crops flourished exceedingly, but the master proved to be wasteful and ungrateful, and Rübezahl soon left him, and went to be shepherd to his next neighbour.

Who acts: crops, master, Rübezahl, householder · What happens: flourish, prove, be, leave, go, care · To what, where: care, householder, next neighbour, shepherd

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 (crops, master, Rübezahl, 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	Under	under	ADP	_	3 care	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 care	nmod:poss
3	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flourished	obl
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 crops	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crops	det
6	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 flourished	nsubj
7	flourished	flourish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	7 flourished	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 proved	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 proved	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 master	det
12	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 proved	nsubj
13	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flourished	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	16 wasteful	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 wasteful	cop
16	wasteful	wasteful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 proved	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ungrateful	cc
18	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wasteful	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 left	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 left	cc
21	Rübezahl	Rübezahl	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 left	nsubj
22	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 left	advmod
23	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 proved	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 left	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 went	cc
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flourished	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	30 shepherd	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 shepherd	cop
30	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 neighbour	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 neighbour	nmod:poss
33	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 neighbour	amod
34	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 flourished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flourish	past	all crops		householder's care	exceedingly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under care=Location
2	prove	past	the master				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is	to-infinitive	the master not said here			wasteful property	tree rules
4	be		the master not said here				tree rules
5	leave	past	Rübezahl	householder		soon property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	go	past	all crops not said here		householder's next neighbour		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to neighbour=Initial_Location
7	is a	to-infinitive		shepherd			tree rules
8	care		householder				nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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