The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 102

Nevertheless, he remembered shortly what he had come for to the palace, and improving the occasion, he set to work to hunt for his dear money.

Who acts: Drakestail · What happens: remember, come, improve, set, work, hunt · To what, where: occasion

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drakestail), 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	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	4 remembered	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nevertheless	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 remembered	nsubj
4	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	4 remembered	advmod
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 come	nsubj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 come	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 remembered	parataxis
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 palace	case
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 palace	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 palace	det
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 improving	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 improving	cc
16	improving	improve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 remembered	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 occasion	det
18	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 improving	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 set	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 set	nsubj
21	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remembered	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 work	mark
23	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 set	xcomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 hunt	mark
25	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 work	advcl
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 money	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 money	nmod:poss
28	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 money	amod
29	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hunt	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remember	past	Drakestail		nevertheless, shortly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	come	past · perfect			for the palace	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	improve	gerund	Drakestail not said here	the occasion		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent occasion=Patient
4	set	past	Drakestail			tree rules
5	work	to-infinitive	Drakestail not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	hunt	to-infinitive	Drakestail not said here		for Drakestail's dear money	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for money=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 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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