The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 55

But the old man shook his head sadly, for he knew that the villain was only crushed for the moment, and that he would shortly be revenging himself upon them.

Who acts: old man, hare · What happens: shake, know, crush, revenge · To what, where: head, villain, hare · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, hare), 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	_	5 shook	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shook	nsubj
5	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shook	obj
8	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	5 shook	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knew	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 knew	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 knew	nsubj
12	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shook	parataxis
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 crushed	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 villain	det
15	villain	villain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 crushed	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 crushed	aux:pass
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 crushed	advmod
18	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 knew	ccomp
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 moment	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 moment	det
21	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 crushed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 revenging	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 revenging	cc
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 revenging	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 revenging	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 revenging	aux
27	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	29 revenging	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 revenging	aux
29	revenging	revenge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 shook	advcl
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 revenging	obj
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 revenging	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past	the old man	hare's head		sadly property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	know	past	hare				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	crush	past · passive		the villain	moment		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	revenge	would · progressive	hare	hare		upon man; shortly 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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