The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 91

The boy could not let it roll away, when it was so close to him, so he gave chase.

Who acts: boy, ball · What happens: not let, roll away, be, give · To what, where: ball, boy, chase

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, ball), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 let	advmod
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 roll	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 close	punct
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 close	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 close	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 close	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 close	advmod
14	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 let	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 close	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gave	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 gave	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gave	nsubj
20	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 let	parataxis
21	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gave	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not let	could	the boy	ball			tree rules
2	roll away	infinitive	ball not said here			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	ball		boy	close property	tree rules
4	give	past	boy	chase			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chase=Theme

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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