The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 96

It was an unquiet life, but in the long run he got used to it, when he saw that there was no danger in it, and it even amused him to befool all the hunters and dogs that were so eager after him.

Who acts: stable, Troll, danger, hunters · What happens: be, use, see, amuse, befool · To what, where: unquiet life, Troll, stable, long run, hunters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stable, Troll, danger, hunters), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 life	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 life	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 life	det
4	unquiet	unquiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 life	amod
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 used	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 used	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 run	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 run	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 run	amod
11	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 used	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 used	nsubj
13	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 used	aux:pass
14	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 life	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 used	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 saw	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 used	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 was	mark
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 saw	ccomp
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 danger	det
25	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 was	nsubj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 danger	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 amused	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 amused	cc
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 amused	nsubj
31	even	even	ADV	_	32 amused	advmod
32	amused	amuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 saw	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 amused	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 befool	mark
35	befool	befool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 amused	advcl
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 hunters	det:predet
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 hunters	det
38	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 befool	obj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 dogs	cc
40	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 hunters	conj
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 eager	nsubj
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 eager	cop
43	so	so	ADV	_	44 eager	advmod
44	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 hunters	acl:relcl
45	after	after	ADP	_	46 him	case
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 eager	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 life	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	stable	a unquiet life					tree rules
2	use	past · passive		Troll	stable	the long run			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	see	past	Troll						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	be	past	no danger in stable			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	amuse	past	danger	Troll					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
6	befool	to-infinitive	danger not said here	all hunters and dogs					tree rules
7	is	past	all hunters and dogs				after Troll	eager 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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