The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 67

‘Between Christmas and the New Year,’ said he, ‘I often amuse myself by wandering about the earth watching the doings of men and learning something about them.

Who acts: man, I, earth · What happens: say, amuse, wonder, watch, learn · To what, where: myself, doings, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, I, earth), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
2	Between	between	ADP	_	3 Christmas	case
3	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Year	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Year	det
6	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Year	compound
7	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Christmas	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Year	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 Year	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 amuse	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 amuse	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 amuse	nsubj
15	often	often	ADV	_	16 amuse	advmod
16	amuse	amuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
17	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 amuse	obj
18	by	by	SCONJ	_	19 wandering	mark
19	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 amuse	advcl
20	about	about	ADP	_	22 earth	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 earth	det
22	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wandering	obl
23	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 earth	acl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 doings	det
25	doings	doing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 watching	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 men	case
27	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 doings	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 learning	cc
29	learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 watching	conj
30	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 learning	obj
31	about	about	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 something	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	man		between Christmas and the New Year	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	amuse	present	I	myself	often property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus myself=Experiencer
3	wonder speech: ask	gerund	I not said here		about the earth	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about earth=Stimulus
4	watch	gerund	the earth not said here	the doings of men		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doing=Theme
5	learn	gerund	the earth not said here	something	about doings = doing	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic

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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