The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 79

His children wanted to eat all the fish themselves, and begged their father to tell them what to do with the pieces he had put aside; but the cobbler only laughed, and told them it was no business of theirs.

Who acts: children, cobbler, Fish · What happens: want, eat, beg, tell, do, put · To what, where: fish, father, children, pieces, business · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, cobbler, Fish), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 children	nmod:poss
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 fish	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fish	det
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	8 fish	nmod:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 begged	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 begged	cc
12	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	conj
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 begged	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 tell	mark
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 begged	advcl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 do	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 do	mark
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tell	ccomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 pieces	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 pieces	det
23	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 do	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 put	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 put	aux
26	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 pieces	acl:relcl
27	aside	aside	ADV	_	26 put	advmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 laughed	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 laughed	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 cobbler	det
31	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 laughed	nsubj
32	only	only	ADV	_	33 laughed	advmod
33	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 told	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 told	cc
36	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 laughed	conj
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 told	iobj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 business	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 business	cop
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 business	det
41	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 told	ccomp
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 theirs	case
43	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 business	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	cobbler's children				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	cobbler's children not said here	all fish children			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
3	beg speech: request	past	cobbler's children not said here		children's father		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent father=Recipient
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	cobbler's children not said here		children = child		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
5	do not said to happen	to-infinitive				with the pieces	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	put	past · perfect	cobbler	the pieces not said here		aside property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent piece=Goal
7	laugh	past	the cobbler				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	tell speech: assert	past	the cobbler not said here		children = child		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
9	is a	past	Fish	no business		of children = child	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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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