The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 95

When he saw this the muleteer’s anger knew no bounds, and forgetting that without the help given him he would have lost his mule altogether, he began to abuse the poor man, declaring that he had ruined his beast, and the law would make him pay for it.

Who acts: mule, anger, help, law, muleteer · What happens: see, know, forget, give, lose, begin · To what, where: this, bounds, that, mule, poor man, beast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mule, anger, help, law), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 began	advcl
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 saw	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 muleteer	det
6	muleteer	muleteer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 anger	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 muleteer	case
8	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	parataxis
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 bounds	det
11	bounds	bound	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 knew	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 forgetting	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 forgetting	cc
14	forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 saw	conj
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 forgetting	obj
16	without	without	ADP	_	18 help	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 help	det
18	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 forgetting	obl
19	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 help	acl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 given	obj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lost	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 lost	aux
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 lost	aux
24	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 given	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 mule	nmod:poss
26	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lost	obj
27	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	24 lost	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 began	nsubj
30	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	to	to	PART	_	32 abuse	mark
32	abuse	abuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 began	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 man	det
34	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 man	amod
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 abuse	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 declaring	punct
37	declaring	declare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 abuse	advcl
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 ruined	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 ruined	nsubj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 ruined	aux
41	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 declaring	ccomp
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 beast	nmod:poss
43	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 ruined	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 make	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 make	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 law	det
47	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 make	nsubj
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 make	aux
49	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 abuse	conj
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 make	obj
51	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 make	xcomp
52	for	for	ADP	_	53 it	case
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 pay	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	mule	this		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	know	past	the muleteer's anger	no bounds		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bound=Stimulus
3	forget	gerund	mule not said here	that	without the help	tree rules
4	give	participle	the help not said here	mule		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	lose	would · perfect	mule	mule's mule	altogether property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mule=Eventuality
6	begin	past	mule			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	abuse	to-infinitive	mule not said here	the poor man		vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
8	declare speech: other	gerund	mule not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	ruin	past · perfect	mule	mule's beast		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Patient
10	make	would	the law	mule		tree rules
11	pay	infinitive	mule not said here		for law	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme
12	anger		the muleteer			nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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