The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 125

He had besides in his trouser pocket a clasp knife with a bone handle, to cut off the ears of the wolves as soon as he had killed them, for he thought it would be cruel to do that while they were still living.

Who acts: Walter, it, ears · What happens: besides, cut off, kill, think, be, do · To what, where: trouser pocket, ears, Walter, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (Walter, it, ears), 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	3 besides	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 besides	aux
3	besides	besides	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 pocket	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 pocket	nmod:poss
6	trouser	trouser	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pocket	compound
7	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 besides	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 knife	det
9	clasp	clasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knife	compound
10	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pocket	appos
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 handle	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 handle	det
13	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 handle	compound
14	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knife	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cut	punct
16	to	to	PART	_	17 cut	mark
17	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 besides	parataxis
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 cut	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ears	det
20	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cut	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 wolves	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wolves	det
23	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ears	nmod
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 soon	advmod
25	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 killed	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 killed	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 killed	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 killed	aux
29	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 cut	advcl
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 killed	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 thought	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 thought	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 thought	nsubj
34	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 besides	parataxis
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 cruel	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 cruel	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 cruel	cop
38	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 thought	ccomp
39	to	to	PART	_	40 do	mark
40	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 cruel	csubj
41	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 do	obj
42	while	while	SCONJ	_	46 living	mark
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 living	nsubj
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 living	aux
45	still	still	ADV	_	46 living	advmod
46	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 do	advcl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 besides	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	besides	past · perfect	Walter		Walter's trouser pocket			tree rules
2	cut off	to-infinitive		the ears of the wolves				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector ear=Eventuality
3	kill	past · perfect · passive		Walter			soon property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer they=Result
4	think speech: other	past	Walter					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	would	it				cruel property	tree rules
6	do	to-infinitive		that				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
7	live	past · progressive	ears = ear			still		vn exist-47.1-1 «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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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