The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 64

Tiidu did not like this advice—he was afraid that the people would laugh at him; and, besides, it was long since he had touched his pipes—but the old man persisted, and at last Tiidu did as he was told.

Who acts: Tiidu, people, old man · What happens: not like, be, laugh, touch, persist, do · To what, where: advice, last Tiidu, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, people, old man), 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	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 like	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 advice	det
6	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 like	obj
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 afraid	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 afraid	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 afraid	cop
10	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 like	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 laugh	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 people	det
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 laugh	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 laugh	aux
15	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 afraid	ccomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laugh	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 touched	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 touched	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 and	punct
21	besides	besides	INTJ	_	29 touched	discourse
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 besides	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 touched	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 touched	aux:pass
25	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 touched	advmod
26	since	since	SCONJ	_	29 touched	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 touched	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 touched	aux
29	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 like	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 pipes	nmod:poss
31	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 touched	obj
32	—	-	PUNCT	_	37 persisted	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 persisted	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 man	det
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 man	amod
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 persisted	nsubj
37	persisted	persist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 like	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 did	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 did	cc
40	at	at	ADP	_	42 Tiidu	case
41	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 Tiidu	amod
42	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 did	obl
43	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 persisted	advcl
44	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 told	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 told	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 told	aux:pass
47	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 did	advcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	Tiidu	this advice			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot advice=Theme
2	is	past	Tiidu			afraid property	tree rules
3	laugh	would	the people			at Tiidu	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	touch	past · perfect · passive		advice		long property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer pipe=Result
5	persist	past	the old man				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	do	past	the old man not said here		last Tiidu		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	tell speech: assert	past · passive		man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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