The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 58

Idiot though he was, he was never unhappy, but always thanked gratefully those who fed him, and sometimes would stop for a little and sing to them.

Who acts: Idiot · What happens: not be, thank, feed, stop, sing · To what, where: those, Peronnik, holes

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Idiot), 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	Idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 unhappy	nsubj
2	though	though	ADP	_	3 he	case
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Idiot	nmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 unhappy	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 unhappy	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 unhappy	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 unhappy	cop
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 unhappy	advmod
9	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thanked	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 thanked	cc
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 thanked	advmod
13	thanked	thank	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 unhappy	conj
14	gratefully	gratefully	ADV	_	15 those	advmod
15	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 thanked	obl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 fed	nsubj
17	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 those	acl:relcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fed	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stop	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stop	cc
21	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 stop	advmod
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 stop	aux
23	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 unhappy	parataxis
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 little	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 little	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 stop	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sing	cc
28	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 stop	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sing	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 unhappy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Idiot though Peronnik			unhappy property	tree rules
2	thank speech: thank	participle	Idiot though Peronnik not said here	those		always property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	feed	past			Peronnik		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	stop	would				for a little; sometimes property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	sing speech: express	infinitive			holes = hole		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=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 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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