The Red Fairy Book, Jack Sells the Cow, sentence 19

However, after his late mistake about the cow, he thought he had better consult his mother first.

Who acts: easy · What happens: think, have, consult, mistake · To what, where: mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack Sells the Cow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (easy), 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	_	12 thought	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	after	after	ADP	_	6 mistake	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mistake	nmod:poss
5	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mistake	amod
6	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thought	obl
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 cow	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cow	det
9	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mistake	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mistake	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	nsubj
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thought	ccomp
15	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 consult	advmod
16	consult	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mother	nmod:poss
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 consult	obj
19	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 consult	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	easy		after easy's late mistake about the cow	however property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	easy				tree rules
3	consult	infinitive	easy not said here	easy's mother		first, well property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme
4	mistake		easy			about the cow	nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=agent about=obl

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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