The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 109

His father and mother said that they thought he was very well off at home, and that he was welcome to stay with them; but he could not rest, and said that he must and would go, so at last they had to give him leave.

Who acts: father, folks · What happens: say, think, be, stay, not rest, go · To what, where: home, DAPPLEGRIM · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, folks), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 mother	cc
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 father	conj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 thought	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thought	nsubj
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 home	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 home	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 well	advmod
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 home	advmod
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 well	compound:prt
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 home	case
15	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thought	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 welcome	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 welcome	cc
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 welcome	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 welcome	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 welcome	cop
21	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thought	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 stay	mark
23	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 welcome	xcomp
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stay	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 rest	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 rest	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 rest	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 rest	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 rest	advmod
31	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 said	cc
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 go	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 go	nsubj
37	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 go	aux
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 go	cc
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 go	aux
40	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 said	ccomp
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 last	punct
42	so	so	ADV	_	44 last	advmod
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 last	case
44	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 go	advcl
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 had	nsubj
46	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 last	acl:relcl
47	to	to	PART	_	48 give	mark
48	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 had	xcomp
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 give	iobj
50	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 give	xcomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	DAPPLEGRIM's father and mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	think speech: other	past	folks = folk				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	father		home	well property	tree rules
4	is	past	father			welcome property	tree rules
5	stay	to-infinitive	father not said here			with folks = folk	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location
6	not rest	could	father				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	say speech: assert	past	DAPPLEGRIM's father and mother not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	go	would	father				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	have	past	folks = folk				tree rules
10	give	to-infinitive	folks = folk not said here	DAPPLEGRIM			tree rules
11	leave	infinitive	folks = folk not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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 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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