More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 9

Tom's strength being thus made known there was no longer any basking by the fire for him; every one would be hiring him to work, and telling him 't was a shame to live such a lazy life.

Who acts: strength, basking, one, t · What happens: make, know, be, hire, work, tell · To what, where: strength, Tom, shame, lazy life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strength, basking, one, t), 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	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 strength	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Tom	case
3	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj:pass
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 made	aux:pass
5	thus	thus	ADV	_	6 made	advmod
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 made	xcomp
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	conj
10	no	no	ADV	_	11 longer	advmod
11	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 was	advmod
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 basking	det
13	basking	basking	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 was	nsubj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 fire	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fire	det
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 basking	nmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fire	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 hiring	punct
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hiring	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 hiring	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 hiring	aux
24	hiring	hire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 made	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hiring	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 work	mark
27	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 hiring	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 telling	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 telling	cc
30	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 hiring	parataxis
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 telling	iobj
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	36 shame	punct
33	t	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 shame	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 shame	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 shame	det
36	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 telling	obl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 live	mark
38	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 shame	acl
39	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	42 life	det:predet
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 life	det
41	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 life	amod
42	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 live	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	gerund · passive		Tom's strength			thus property	tree rules
2	know	participle	Tom's strength not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	be	past	any basking by the fire for Tom			there	long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hire	would · progressive	every one	Tom				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	work	to-infinitive	every one not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	tell speech: assert	gerund			Tom			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
7	is a	past	t	a shame				tree rules
8	live	to-infinitive		such lazy life				vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location

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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