The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 95

‘Take away that foolish boy,’ cried the girl to the shoemaker at last, ‘I am tired of him,’ and then suddenly he was able to walk, and betook himself to his home, but he did not tell the others what had happened to him.

Who acts: you, I, shoemaker · What happens: take away, cry, be, walk, betake, not tell · To what, where: foolish boy, girl, shoemaker, last, others · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, shoemaker), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADP	_	2 Take	compound:prt
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 boy	det
5	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girl	det
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 shoemaker	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shoemaker	det
14	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cried	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tired	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 tired	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 tired	nsubj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 tired	cop
21	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Take	advcl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tired	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 able	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 able	advmod
28	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	31 able	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 able	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 able	cop
31	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Take	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 walk	mark
33	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 able	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 betook	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 betook	cc
36	betook	betake	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	conj
37	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 betook	obj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 home	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 home	nmod:poss
40	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 betook	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 tell	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 tell	cc
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 tell	nsubj
44	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 tell	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 tell	advmod
46	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Take	conj
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 others	det
48	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 tell	obj
49	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	51 happened	nsubj
50	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 happened	aux
51	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 tell	ccomp
52	to	to	ADP	_	53 him	case
53	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 happened	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take away	imperative	you not said here	that foolish boy					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	you not said here	the girl	the shoemaker	last			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=Topic to shoemaker=Recipient
3	is	present	I					of shoemaker; tired property	tree rules
4	is	past	shoemaker				then	able, suddenly property	tree rules
5	walk	to-infinitive	shoemaker not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	betake	past	you not said here	shoemaker				to shoemaker's home	tree rules
7	not tell speech: assert	past · do-support	shoemaker	the others					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent other=Recipient clause=Topic
8	happen	past · perfect			shoemaker				vn occur-48.3-1 «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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