The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 4

Still, with all his practice he shot very badly, he was so fat and heavy, and as he grew daily fatter, he was at last obliged to give up walking, and be dragged about in a wheel-chair, and the people made fun of him, and gave him the name of my Lord Tubby.

Who acts: King, people · What happens: shoot, be, grow, oblige, give up, drag · To what, where: King, walking, fun, name, Lord

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, people), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	8 shot	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 practice	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 practice	det:predet
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 practice	nmod:poss
6	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shot	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shot	nsubj
8	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 badly	advmod
10	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 shot	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fat	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fat	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fat	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 fat	advmod
15	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shot	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 heavy	cc
17	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fat	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 grew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 grew	cc
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 grew	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 grew	nsubj
22	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shot	conj
23	daily	daily	ADV	_	22 grew	advmod
24	fatter	fat	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 grew	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 obliged	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 obliged	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 obliged	aux:pass
28	at	at	SCONJ	_	30 obliged	mark
29	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 obliged	amod
30	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 shot	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 give	mark
32	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 obliged	xcomp
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 give	compound:prt
34	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 give	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 dragged	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 dragged	cc
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 dragged	aux:pass
38	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 shot	conj
39	about	about	ADP	_	44 chair	case
40	in	in	ADP	_	44 chair	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 chair	det
42	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 chair	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 wheel	punct
44	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 dragged	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 made	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 made	cc
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 people	det
48	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 made	nsubj
49	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shot	conj
50	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 made	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 him	case
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 fun	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 gave	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 gave	cc
55	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shot	conj
56	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 gave	iobj
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 name	det
58	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 gave	obj
59	of	of	ADP	_	61 Lord	case
60	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 Lord	nmod:poss
61	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 name	nmod
62	Tubby	Tubby	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 Lord	flat
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 shot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	past	King			still	with King's practice; badly property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with practice=Instrument
2	is	past	King				fat property	tree rules
3	be		King not said here					tree rules
4	grow	past	King				daily, fat property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	oblige	past · passive		King				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
6	give up	to-infinitive		walking				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walking=Source
7	drag	infinitive · passive	King not said here				about a wheel chair	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: about chair=Location
8	make	past	the people	fun of King				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Product
9	give	past	King not said here	the name of my Lord	King			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient name=Theme
10	practice		King					nom practice «act transitive»: poss=agent
11	name			my Lord				nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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