The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 30

There he saw a man who wanted to give his pig some acorns to eat, and was trying with all his might to make him climb up the oak-tree.

Who acts: lover, man · What happens: see, want, give, eat, try, make · To what, where: man, acorns, pig, lover, oak tree

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lover, man), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 saw	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 wanted	nsubj
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 man	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 give	mark
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wanted	xcomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 pig	nmod:poss
11	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obj
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 acorns	det
13	acorns	acorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 give	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 eat	mark
15	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 acorns	acl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 trying	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 trying	cc
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 trying	aux
19	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 saw	conj
20	with	with	SCONJ	_	23 might	mark
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 might	det:predet
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 might	nmod:poss
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 trying	aux
24	to	to	PART	_	25 make	mark
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 trying	advcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 make	obj
27	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 make	xcomp
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 climb	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 tree	det
30	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tree	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 oak	punct
32	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 climb	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	see	past	lover	a man		there	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
2	want	past	a man				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	a man not said here	some acorns	lover's pig		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent pig=Recipient acorn=Theme
4	eat	to-infinitive	a man not said here	some acorns not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	try	might · past	lover not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	make	to-infinitive	lover not said here	lover			tree rules
7	climb up	infinitive	lover not said here	the oak tree			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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