More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 42

And he _was_ angry, but could not help himself, and he did not care to tell of it and get the laugh on him, so no one knew.

Who acts: butler, one · What happens: be, not help, not care, tell, get, know · To what, where: butler, laugh · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (butler, one), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 angry	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 angry	nsubj
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 he	punct
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	cop
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 angry	punct
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 help	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 help	cc
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 help	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 help	advmod
11	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	parataxis
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 help	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 care	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 care	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 care	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 care	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 care	advmod
18	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 help	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 tell	mark
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 care	xcomp
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tell	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 get	cc
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 tell	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 laugh	det
26	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 get	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 get	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 knew	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	33 knew	advmod
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 one	det
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 knew	nsubj
33	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 care	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	butler		angry property	tree rules
2	not help	could		butler		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary
3	not care	past · do-support	butler			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	butler not said here		of finger	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	get	infinitive	butler not said here	the laugh	on butler	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent laugh=Theme on he=Source
6	know	past	no one			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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