More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 115

At last the little boy turned up, looking very ragged and desolated like, and the king's daughter cast her eye on him, till her father grew very angry and ordered them to turn the little beggar boy away. "

Who acts: last little boy, daughter, father · What happens: turn up, look, desolate, cast, grow, order · To what, where: eye, signs, little beggar boy

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last little boy, daughter, father), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	nsubj
6	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 turned	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 looking	punct
9	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 turned	advcl
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 ragged	advmod
11	ragged	ragged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 looking	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 desolated	cc
13	desolated	desolate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 looking	conj
14	like	like	ADP	_	13 desolated	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cast	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cast	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 daughter	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 king	case
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cast	nsubj
21	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	parataxis
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 eye	nmod:poss
23	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cast	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cast	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 grew	punct
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 grew	mark
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 father	nmod:poss
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 grew	nsubj
30	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 cast	conj
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 angry	advmod
32	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 grew	xcomp
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 ordered	cc
34	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 grew	conj
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 ordered	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 turn	mark
37	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 ordered	xcomp
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 boy	det
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 boy	amod
40	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 boy	compound
41	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 turn	obj
42	away	away	ADV	_	37 turn	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 turned	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	turn up	past	the last little boy				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	gerund	the last little boy not said here			ragged property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	desolate	participle	the last little boy not said here				tree rules
4	cast	past	the king's daughter	daughter's eye		on boy	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on he=Destination
5	grow	past	daughter's father			angry property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	order	past	daughter's father not said here		signs = sign		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
7	turn not said to happen	to-infinitive	daughter's father not said here	the little beggar boy		away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme boy=Result

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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