More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 78

But soon after his father died, and his mother got married again to a man that turned out to be a very vicious step-father, who couldn't abide the little boy.

Who acts: father, man, vicious step father · What happens: die, marry, turn out, be, not abide · To what, where: mother, vicious step father, little 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 (father, man, vicious step 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 died	cc
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 died	advmod
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 died	mark
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	nsubj
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 married	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 married	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mother	nmod:poss
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 married	nsubj:pass
11	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 married	aux:pass
12	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 died	conj
13	again	again	ADV	_	12 married	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 man	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 married	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 turned	nsubj
18	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 man	acl:relcl
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 turned	compound:prt
20	to	to	PART	_	27 father	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 father	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 father	det
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 vicious	advmod
24	vicious	vicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 father	amod
25	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 father	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 step	punct
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turned	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 abide	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 abide	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 abide	aux
31	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 abide	advmod
32	abide	abide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 father	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 boy	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 boy	amod
35	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 abide	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	father's father			soon property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	marry	past · passive		father's mother	again	to a man	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to man=Co-Patient
3	turn out	past	a man				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	to-infinitive	a man not said here	a vicious step father			tree rules
5	not abide	could	a vicious step father	the little boy			tree rules

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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