The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 36

The poor little dog, who didn’t understand this at all, pulled at his coat to make him at least look at her, and this made Prince Darling so cross that he gave her quite a hard kick.

Who acts: poor little dog, Darling, this · What happens: not understand, pull, make, look, cross, give · To what, where: this, all, poor little dog, coat, Darling, Prince Darling

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor little dog, Darling, this), 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	4 dog	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dog	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dog	amod
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pulled	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 understand	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 understand	nsubj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 understand	aux
8	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 understand	advmod
9	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dog	acl:relcl
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 understand	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 understand	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pulled	punct
14	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 coat	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 coat	nmod:poss
17	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pulled	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 make	mark
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 pulled	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 make	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 least	case
22	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 look	obl
23	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 make	xcomp
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 look	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 made	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 made	cc
28	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 made	nsubj
29	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pulled	parataxis
30	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Darling	compound
31	Darling	Darling	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 made	obj
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 cross	advmod
33	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 made	advcl
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 gave	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 gave	nsubj
36	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 cross	ccomp
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 gave	iobj
38	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	41 kick	det:predet
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 kick	det
40	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 kick	amod
41	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gave	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not understand	past · do-support	the poor little dog	this		all		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	pull	participle · passive		the poor little dog		Darling's coat		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at coat=Asset
3	make	to-infinitive		Darling				tree rules
4	look	infinitive	Darling not said here				at Bibi; at least	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at least=Theme
5	make	past	this	Prince Darling				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset darling=Product
6	cross	infinitive	this not said here					tree rules
7	give	past	Darling	quite hard kick	Bibi			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient kick=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 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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