The Aesop for Children, The Boy and the Filberts, sentence 3

There he stood, unwilling to give up a single filbert and yet unable to get them all out at once.

Who acts: Boy · What happens: stand, unwill, give up, get out · To what, where: single filbert, filberts

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Boy and the Filberts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boy), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 stood	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 unwilling	punct
5	unwilling	unwill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stood	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 give	mark
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 unwilling	xcomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 give	compound:prt
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 filbert	det
10	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 filbert	amod
11	filbert	filbert	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 unable	cc
13	yet	yet	ADV	_	14 unable	advmod
14	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stood	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 get	mark
16	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 unable	xcomp
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 get	obj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 them	nmod:unmarked
19	out	out	ADV	_	16 get	advmod
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 once	case
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 get	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Boy		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	unwill	gerund	Boy not said here				tree rules
3	give up	to-infinitive	Boy not said here	a single filbert			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent filbert=Source
4	get out	to-infinitive	Boy not said here	filberts = filbert		out property	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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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