The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 128

The man tried to shove him away, but the youth wouldn’t allow it for a moment, and, pushing him off by force, sat down in his place again.

Who acts: man, youth, pushing · What happens: try, shove away, not allow, push off, sit down · To what, where: man, seat, place

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, youth, pushing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tried	nsubj
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 shove	mark
5	shove	shove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shove	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 shove	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 allow	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 allow	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youth	det
11	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 allow	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 allow	aux
13	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 allow	advmod
14	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 shove	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 allow	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 moment	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 moment	det
18	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 allow	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sat	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sat	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 and	punct
22	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 sat	csubj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pushing	obj
24	off	off	ADP	_	22 pushing	compound:prt
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 force	case
26	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pushing	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pushing	punct
28	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	conj
29	down	down	ADP	_	28 sat	compound:prt
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 place	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 place	nmod:poss
32	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sat	obl
33	again	again	ADV	_	28 sat	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	the man					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	shove away not said to happen	to-infinitive	the man not said here	man			away property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	not allow	would	the youth	seat		moment		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary
4	push off	gerund		man			by force	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme by force=Trajectory
5	sit down	past	pushing		man's place	again		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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