The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 46

Stan crept up, hoping that he might manage to decoy some of them away quietly, and drive them home for food for his family, but he soon found this could not be.

Who acts: Stan, this · What happens: creep up, hope, manage, decoy, drive, find · To what, where: trees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stan, this), 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	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 crept	nsubj
2	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 crept	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hoping	punct
5	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 crept	advcl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 manage	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 manage	nsubj
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 manage	aux
9	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hoping	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 decoy	mark
11	decoy	decoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 manage	xcomp
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 away	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 some	nmod
15	away	away	ADV	_	11 decoy	advmod
16	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	15 away	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 drive	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 drive	cc
19	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 crept	advcl
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 drive	obj
21	home	home	ADV	_	19 drive	advmod
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 food	case
23	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drive	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 family	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 family	nmod:poss
26	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drive	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 found	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 found	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 found	nsubj
30	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 found	advmod
31	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crept	parataxis
32	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 be	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 be	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 be	advmod
35	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 found	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	creep up	past	Stan			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hope	gerund	Stan not said here			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	manage	might	Stan			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	decoy	to-infinitive	Stan not said here		away property	tree rules
5	drive	infinitive	Stan not said here	trees = tree	for food; for Stan's family; home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory
6	find	past	Stan		soon property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	not can	could	this			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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