The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 20

The fencing-master received many a blow, but he set his teeth, and would not allow himself to be troubled by them, for he thought to himself, ‘If you are afraid of a blow you will never get the house.’

Who acts: fencing master, master, teeth, you · What happens: receive, set, not allow, trouble, think, be · To what, where: many blow, teeth, master, house

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fencing master, master, teeth, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 master	det
2	fencing	fencing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 master	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 fencing	punct
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 received	nsubj
5	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 blow	amod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 blow	det
8	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 received	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 set	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 set	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 set	nsubj
12	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 received	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 teeth	nmod:poss
14	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 set	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 allow	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 allow	cc
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 allow	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 allow	advmod
19	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 set	conj
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 allow	iobj
21	to	to	PART	_	23 troubled	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 troubled	aux:pass
23	troubled	trouble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 allow	advcl
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 troubled	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thought	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 thought	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 thought	nsubj
29	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 set	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 himself	case
31	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 thought	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 afraid	punct
33	‘	'	PUNCT	_	37 afraid	punct
34	If	if	SCONJ	_	37 afraid	mark
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 afraid	nsubj
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 afraid	cop
37	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 thought	ccomp
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 blow	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 blow	det
40	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 afraid	obl
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 get	nsubj
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 get	aux
43	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	44 get	advmod
44	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 blow	acl:relcl
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 house	det
46	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 get	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 afraid	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	37 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	receive	past	the fencing master	a many blow			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme
2	set	past	master	master's teeth			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tooth=Result
3	not allow	would	master not said here		master		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary
4	trouble	to-infinitive · passive	teeth = tooth				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	think speech: other	past	master		master		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you			of a blow; afraid property	tree rules
7	not get	future	you	the house			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus

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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