The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 119

But he didn’t take the huntsmen into the wood with him, and they were well enough pleased to remain behind, for the wild boar had often received them in a manner which did not make them desire its further acquaintance.

Who acts: tailor, huntsmen, manner, boar · What happens: not take, be, remain, receive, not make, not desire · To what, where: huntsmen, wood, wild boar, manner, further acquaintance

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, huntsmen, manner, boar), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 take	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 take	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 take	advmod
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 huntsmen	det
7	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 wood	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wood	det
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 take	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pleased	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 pleased	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pleased	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 pleased	cop
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 pleased	advmod
18	enough	enough	ADV	_	19 pleased	advmod
19	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 take	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 remain	mark
21	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 pleased	xcomp
22	behind	behind	ADV	_	21 remain	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 received	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 received	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 boar	det
26	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 boar	amod
27	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 received	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 received	aux
29	often	often	ADV	_	30 received	advmod
30	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 take	advcl
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 received	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 manner	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 manner	det
34	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 received	obl
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 make	nsubj
36	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 make	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 make	advmod
38	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 manner	acl:relcl
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 make	obj
40	desire	desire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 make	xcomp
41	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 acquaintance	nmod:poss
42	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 acquaintance	amod
43	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 desire	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not take	past · do-support	tailor	the huntsmen	the wood	with child	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent huntsman=Theme into wood=Destination
2	is	past	huntsmen = huntsman			enough, pleased, well property	tree rules
3	remain	to-infinitive	huntsmen = huntsman not said here			behind property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	receive	past · perfect · passive		the wild boar	a manner	often property	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme they=Location
5	not make	past · do-support	a manner	huntsmen = huntsman			tree rules
6	not desire	infinitive	huntsmen = huntsman not said here	boar's further acquaintance			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot acquaintance=Theme
7	acquaint		boar				nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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