More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 91

He thought that he'd do his own work after all, so that Yallery Brown would leave him and his neighbours alone.

Who acts: Tom, Yallery · What happens: think, do, leave, work · To what, where: own work, Tom

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, Yallery), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 do	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 work	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 work	amod
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obj
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 do	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 leave	punct
13	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 leave	mark
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 so	fixed
15	Yallery	Yallery	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 leave	nsubj
16	Brown	Brown	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Yallery	flat
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 leave	aux
18	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 leave	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 neighbours	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 neighbours	nmod:poss
22	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 him	conj
23	alone	alone	ADV	_	18 leave	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Tom				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	do	would	Tom	Tom's own work	after all		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
3	leave	would	Yallery	Tom		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	work		Tom				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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