More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 104

The slothful fellow would do nothing but sit in the chimney-corner, and eat as much at a time as would serve four or five ordinary men.

Who acts: slothful fellow · What happens: do, sit, eat, serve · To what, where: nothing, chimney corner, four ordinary men

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slothful fellow), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fellow	det
2	slothful	slothful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fellow	amod
3	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 do	obj
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 sit	cc
8	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 do	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 corner	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 corner	det
11	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 corner	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 chimney	punct
13	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sit	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 eat	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 eat	cc
16	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 do	parataxis
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADV	_	16 eat	advmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 time	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 time	det
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eat	obl
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 serve	mark
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 serve	aux
24	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 eat	advcl
25	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 men	nummod
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 five	cc
27	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 four	conj
28	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 men	amod
29	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 serve	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	do	would	the slothful fellow	nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
2	sit	present	the slothful fellow not said here		the chimney corner		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
3	eat	present				time	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	serve	would		four ordinary men			vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Attribute

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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