More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 69

He grew exceeding rich, but he did not forget his duty in the pride of his riches.

Who acts: Pedlar · What happens: grow, exceed, not forget, pride · To what, where: duty, pride, riches

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 (Pedlar), 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	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exceeding	exceed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 grew	xcomp
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 exceeding	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 forget	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 forget	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 forget	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 forget	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 forget	advmod
10	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 grew	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 duty	nmod:poss
12	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 forget	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 pride	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pride	det
15	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 forget	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 riches	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 riches	nmod:poss
18	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pride	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Pedlar				tree rules
2	exceed	gerund	Pedlar not said here			rich property	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
3	not forget	past · do-support	Pedlar	Pedlar's duty	the pride of Pedlar's riches		tree rules
4	pride			Pedlar's riches			nom pride «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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