The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 53

For this cause he was continually walking backwards and forwards, thinking how he could contrive to get her, and yet do nothing that was unkind to her sister.

Who acts: Minnikin · What happens: walk, think, contrive, get, do, be · To what, where: Princess, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (Minnikin), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 cause	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 cause	det
3	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walking	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 walking	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 walking	aux
6	continually	continually	ADV	_	7 walking	advmod
7	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	7 walking	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 forwards	cc
10	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	8 backwards	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thinking	punct
12	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 walking	advcl
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 contrive	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 contrive	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 contrive	aux
16	contrive	contrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 thinking	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 get	mark
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 contrive	xcomp
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 get	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 do	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 do	cc
22	yet	yet	ADV	_	23 do	advmod
23	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 walking	conj
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 do	obj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 unkind	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 unkind	cop
27	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 nothing	acl:relcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 sister	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 sister	nmod:poss
30	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 unkind	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 walking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	Minnikin			for this cause; backwards, continually property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	gerund	Minnikin not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	contrive	could	Minnikin				tree rules
4	get	to-infinitive	Minnikin not said here	Princess			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
5	do	present	Minnikin not said here	nothing	yet		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
6	is	past				to Princess's sister; unkind property	tree rules

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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