The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 55

But Uraschimataro paid no heed to these remarks, and as he was really very clever in managing a boat, the old people were very seldom anxious about him.

Who acts: Uraschimataro, son, old people · What happens: pay, be, manage · To what, where: heed, boat

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (Uraschimataro, son, old people), 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	_	3 paid	cc
2	Uraschimataro	Uraschimataro	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 paid	nsubj
3	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 heed	det
5	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 remarks	case
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 remarks	det
8	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 paid	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 anxious	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 anxious	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 clever	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 clever	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 clever	cop
14	really	really	ADV	_	16 clever	advmod
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 clever	advmod
16	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 anxious	advcl
17	in	in	SCONJ	_	18 managing	mark
18	managing	manage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 clever	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 boat	det
20	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 managing	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 clever	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 people	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 people	amod
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 anxious	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 anxious	cop
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 seldom	advmod
27	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	28 anxious	advmod
28	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 paid	parataxis
29	about	about	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 anxious	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pay	past	Uraschimataro	no heed	to this remarks	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset
2	is	past	son		clever property	tree rules
3	manage	gerund	son not said here	a boat		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
4	is	past	the old people		about son; anxious, seldom 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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