More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 93

He could only sit by and look on, and have the cold shoulder turned on him, while the unnatural thing was meddling with the others, and working for him.

Who acts: Tom, cold shoulder, unnatural thing · What happens: sit by, look on, have, turn, meddle, work

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, cold shoulder, unnatural thing), 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	4 sit	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 sit	advmod
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	4 sit	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 look	cc
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sit	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 look	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 have	cc
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sit	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shoulder	det
13	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shoulder	compound
14	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 turned	nsubj
15	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 have	ccomp
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 turned	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 meddling	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 meddling	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 thing	det
21	unnatural	unnatural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 thing	amod
22	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 meddling	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 meddling	aux
24	meddling	meddle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 turned	advcl
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 others	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 others	det
27	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 meddling	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 working	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 working	cc
30	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 meddling	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 working	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	sit by	could	Tom		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look on	infinitive	Tom not said here		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	have	infinitive	Tom not said here		tree rules
4	turn	past	the cold shoulder	on Tom	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on he=Trajectory
5	meddle	past · progressive	the unnatural thing	with the others	tree rules
6	work	gerund	the unnatural thing not said here	for Tom	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary

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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