The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 87

But though his parents wept bitterly and fancied the child was suffering all kinds of dreadful things, the giant treated him like his own son, though he never allowed him to see his daughters.

Who acts: parents, child, giant, son · What happens: weep, fancy, suffer, treat, not allow, see · To what, where: kinds, son, child, daughters

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, child, giant, son), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	21 treated	cc
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 wept	mark
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 parents	nmod:poss
4	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wept	nsubj
5	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 treated	advcl
6	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	5 wept	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fancied	cc
8	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wept	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 child	det
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 suffering	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 suffering	aux
12	suffering	suffer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 fancied	ccomp
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 kinds	det
14	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 suffering	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 things	case
16	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 things	amod
17	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 kinds	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wept	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 giant	det
20	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 treated	nsubj
21	treated	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 treated	obj
23	like	like	ADP	_	26 son	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 son	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 son	amod
26	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 treated	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 allowed	punct
28	though	though	SCONJ	_	31 allowed	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 allowed	nsubj
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 allowed	advmod
31	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 treated	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 allowed	iobj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 see	mark
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 allowed	xcomp
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 daughters	nmod:poss
36	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 see	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 treated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	weep	past	son's parents			bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fancy	past	son's parents not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	suffer	past · progressive	the child	all kinds of dreadful things			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kind=Stimulus
4	treat	past	the giant		son	like son's own son	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	not allow	past	son		child		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
6	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	son not said here	son's daughters			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus

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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