More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 39

He minded how she'd nursed him when he was a tiddy brat, and helped him with his lessons, and cooked his dinners, and mended his clouts, and bore with his foolishness; and he felt sorrier and sorrier, while he began to sob and greet.

Who acts: folk · What happens: mind, nurse, be, help, cook, mend · To what, where: mother, tiddy brat, folk, dinners, clouts

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (folk), 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 minded	nsubj
2	minded	mind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 nursed	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nursed	nsubj:pass
5	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nursed	aux
6	nursed	nurse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 minded	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nursed	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 brat	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 brat	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brat	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 brat	det
12	tiddy	tiddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 brat	amod
13	brat	brat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nursed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 helped	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 helped	cc
16	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 minded	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 helped	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 lessons	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 lessons	nmod:poss
20	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 helped	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cooked	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cooked	cc
23	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 minded	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 dinners	nmod:poss
25	dinners	dinner	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 cooked	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 mended	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 mended	cc
28	mended	mend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 cooked	parataxis
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 clouts	nmod:poss
30	clouts	clout	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 mended	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bore	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 bore	cc
33	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 mended	conj
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 foolishness	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 foolishness	nmod:poss
36	foolishness	foolishness	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bore	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 felt	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 felt	cc
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 felt	nsubj
40	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 minded	parataxis
41	sorrier	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 felt	xcomp
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 sorrier	cc
43	sorrier	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	41 sorrier	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 began	punct
45	while	while	SCONJ	_	47 began	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 began	nsubj
47	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 felt	conj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 sob	mark
49	sob	sob	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 began	xcomp
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 greet	cc
51	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 sob	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 minded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	mind	past	folk				vn care-88.1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	nurse	past · perfect · passive		mother			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme
3	is a	past	folk	a tiddy brat			tree rules
4	help	past	folk not said here		folk	with folk's lessons	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary with lesson=Theme
5	cook	past	folk not said here	folk's dinners			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
6	mend	past		folk's clouts			tree rules
7	bear	past				with folk's foolishness	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
8	feel	past	folk			sorry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
9	begin	past	folk				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	sob	to-infinitive	folk not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	greet speech: greet	infinitive	folk not said here				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
12	clout		folk				nom clout «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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