The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 45

Then all the old people came and asked for work, and he answered cheerfully, ‘Oh, yes, there is plenty for everybody;’ and when the boys begged to be allowed to help he found something that they could do.

Who acts: old people, man, boys · What happens: come, ask, answer, beg, allow, help · To what, where: something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old people, man, boys), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 came	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 people	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 people	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 asked	cc
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 work	case
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 answered	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 answered	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 answered	nsubj
14	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	parataxis
15	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	_	14 answered	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ‘	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 answered	punct
18	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	23 is	discourse
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Oh	punct
20	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	18 Oh	discourse
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Oh	punct
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 is	expl
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 ‘	cop
24	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 is	nsubj
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 everybody	case
26	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	24 plenty	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 begged	cc
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 begged	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 boys	det
32	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 begged	nsubj
33	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	36 allowed	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 allowed	aux:pass
36	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 begged	ccomp
37	to	to	PART	_	38 help	mark
38	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 allowed	xcomp
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 found	nsubj
40	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 help	ccomp
41	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	40 found	obj
42	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 do	obj
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 do	nsubj
44	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 do	aux
45	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 something	acl:relcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	all old people		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	all old people not said here			for work	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	answer speech: assert	past	man			cheerfully property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	beg speech: request	past	the boys				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	allow not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality
6	help not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	find	past	man	something			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
8	do	could	boys = boy				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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