More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 77

Centuries of years ago, when almost all this part of the country was wilderness, there was a little boy, who lived in a poor bit of property and his father gave him a little bull-calf, and with it he gave him everything he wanted for it.

Who acts: little boy, father · What happens: be, live, give, want · To what, where: part wilderness, poor bit, little bull calf, boy, everything

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 (little boy, 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	Centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ago	obl:unmarked
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 years	case
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Centuries	nmod
4	ago	ago	ADV	_	18 was	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ago	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 wilderness	advmod
7	almost	almost	ADV	_	8 all	advmod
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 part	det:predet
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 part	det
10	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wilderness	compound
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 country	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 country	det
13	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 part	nmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wilderness	cop
15	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 was	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wilderness	punct
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 was	expl
18	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 boy	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 boy	amod
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 was	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lived	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 lived	nsubj
24	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 boy	acl:relcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 bit	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 bit	det
27	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bit	amod
28	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lived	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 property	case
30	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bit	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 gave	cc
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 father	nmod:poss
33	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gave	nsubj
34	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lived	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 gave	iobj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 calf	det
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 calf	amod
38	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 calf	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 bull	punct
40	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gave	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 gave	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 gave	cc
43	with	with	ADP	_	44 it	case
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 gave	obl
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 gave	nsubj
46	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 was	conj
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 gave	iobj
48	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	46 gave	obj
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 wanted	nsubj
50	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 everything	acl:relcl
51	for	for	ADP	_	52 it	case
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 wanted	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		part wilderness				tree rules
2	be	past	a little boy			there	ago property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	live	past	a little boy			a poor bit of property		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bit=Location
4	give	past	boy's father	a little bull calf	boy			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient calf=Theme
5	give	past	father	everything	boy		with Calf	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient everything=Theme
6	want	past	father				for Calf	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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