The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 7

They were very poor indeed, and their hut shook about their ears on windy nights, till they expected the walls to fall in and crush them, but instead of going to work as a boy of his age ought to do, Toueno-Boueno did nothing but lounge along the street, his eyes fixed on the ground, seeing nothing that went on round him.

Who acts: Toueno, hut, walls · What happens: be, shake, expect, fall in, crush, go · To what, where: walls, Toueno, nothing, eyes, ground

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toueno, hut, walls), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 poor	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 poor	advmod
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 poor	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shook	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shook	cc
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hut	nmod:poss
9	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shook	nsubj
10	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	conj
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 ears	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 ears	nmod:poss
13	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shook	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 nights	case
15	windy	windy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 nights	amod
16	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shook	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 expected	punct
18	till	till	SCONJ	_	20 expected	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 expected	nsubj
20	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 shook	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 walls	det
22	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 expected	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 fall	mark
24	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 expected	xcomp
25	in	in	ADV	_	24 fall	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 crush	cc
27	crush	crush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 fall	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 crush	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 do	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 do	cc
31	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	33 going	mark
32	of	of	ADP	_	31 instead	fixed
33	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 do	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 work	mark
35	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 going	xcomp
36	as	as	ADP	_	38 boy	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 boy	det
38	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 work	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 age	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 age	nmod:poss
41	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 boy	nmod
42	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 do	aux
43	to	to	PART	_	44 do	mark
44	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 poor	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 did	punct
46	Toueno	Toueno	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 did	nsubj
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 Boueno	punct
48	Boueno	Boueno	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Toueno	flat
49	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 do	conj
50	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	49 did	obj
51	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 lounge	cc
52	lounge	lounge	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 nothing	conj
53	along	along	ADP	_	55 street	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 street	det
55	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 did	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 eyes	punct
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 eyes	nmod:poss
58	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 street	appos
59	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 eyes	acl
60	on	on	ADP	_	62 ground	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 ground	det
62	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 fixed	obl
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 seeing	punct
64	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 did	advcl
65	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	64 seeing	obj
66	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	67 went	nsubj
67	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 nothing	acl:relcl
68	on	on	ADV	_	67 went	advmod
69	round	round	ADP	_	70 him	case
70	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 went	obl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 poor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Toueno				indeed, poor property	tree rules
2	shake	past	Toueno's hut			night	about Toueno's ears	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about ear=Location
3	expect	past	Toueno	the walls				tree rules
4	fall in not said to happen	to-infinitive	the walls not said here					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	crush	infinitive	the walls not said here	Toueno				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	go	gerund						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	work	to-infinitive					as a boy of Boy's age	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as boy=Attribute
8	do	ought	Toueno not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	do	past	Toueno	nothing			along the street	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
10	fix	participle		Boy's eyes not said here	the ground			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
11	see	gerund	Toueno not said here	nothing				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
12	go on	past					round Boy	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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