More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 34

Nor was the Piper unmindful of the little toddling ones, for every fifty yards he'd stop and give an extra flourish on his pipe just to give them time to keep up with the older and stronger of the band.

Who acts: Nor · What happens: be, toddle, stop, give, keep up · To what, where: Piper unmindful, extra flourish, pipe, yards

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nor), 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	Nor	Nor	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 unmindful	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 unmindful	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 unmindful	det
4	Piper	Piper	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 unmindful	compound
5	unmindful	unmindful	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 ones	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ones	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ones	amod
9	toddling	toddle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 unmindful	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stop	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 yards	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 yards	det
14	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 yards	nummod
15	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 stop	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stop	nsubj
17	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 stop	aux
18	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 unmindful	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 give	cc
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 stop	conj
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 flourish	det
22	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 flourish	amod
23	flourish	flourish	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 pipe	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 pipe	nmod:poss
26	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obl
27	just	just	ADV	_	29 give	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 give	mark
29	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 give	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 give	iobj
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 give	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 keep	mark
33	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 give	advcl
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 keep	compound:prt
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 older	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 older	det
37	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 keep	xcomp
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 stronger	cc
39	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 older	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 band	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 band	det
42	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 stronger	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 unmindful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Nor	the Piper unmindful				of the little toddling ones	tree rules
2	toddle	gerund							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stop	would	Nor					for every fifty yards	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	give	infinitive	Nor not said here	a extra flourish		Nor's pipe			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent flourish=Theme on pipe=Asset
5	give	to-infinitive	Nor not said here		yards = yard		time		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	keep up	to-infinitive	Nor not said here					old property	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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