Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 12

Some of the men who stood by said that so great a present ought not to be given to a mere boy; but Mr. Fitzwarren frowned upon them.

Who acts: men, Some, Fitzwarren · What happens: stand by, say, not give, frown · To what, where: present, mere boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, Some, Fitzwarren), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 said	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 men	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 men	det
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Some	nmod
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 stood	nsubj
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 men	acl:relcl
7	by	by	ADP	_	6 stood	obl
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 great	mark
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 great	advmod
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 present	det
13	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 given	nsubj
14	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 given	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 given	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	18 given	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 given	aux:pass
18	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 great	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 boy	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 boy	det
21	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 boy	amod
22	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 given	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 frowned	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 frowned	cc
25	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Fitzwarren	nmod:desc
26	Fitzwarren	Fitzwarren	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 frowned	nsubj
27	frowned	frown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 frowned	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	stand by	past	the men				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Some				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not give	ought · passive		a present	a mere boy		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to boy=Recipient
4	frown	past	Fitzwarren Mr.			upon men = man	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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