More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 19

Scrapefoot was very much afraid of the Bears, but for all that he wanted very much to know all about them.

Who acts: Scrapefoot · What happens: be, want, know · To what, where: much, all

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scrapefoot), 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	Scrapefoot	Scrapefoot	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 afraid	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 afraid	advmod
5	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Bears	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Bears	det
8	Bears	Bear	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 afraid	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wanted	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 wanted	cc
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 that	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 that	det:predet
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 wanted	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wanted	nsubj
15	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 afraid	parataxis
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wanted	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 know	mark
19	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 much	acl
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 know	obj
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 all	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Scrapefoot		of the Bears; afraid property	tree rules
2	want	past	Scrapefoot	much	for that	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot much=Theme
3	know	to-infinitive		all	about Bears = bear	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus

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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