The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 46

And when the old man with the long white beard stood before him, praying that he might earn his bread, he replied, ‘Oh, father, I could not suffer you to work, but you shall be overseer, and look after the rest.’

Who acts: old man, man, I, you · What happens: stand, pray, earn, reply, not suffer, work · To what, where: bread, you, overseer

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 man, man, I, you), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	24 replied	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 stood	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stood	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 beard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 beard	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 beard	amod
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 beard	amod
10	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	nmod
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 replied	advcl
12	before	before	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stood	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 praying	punct
15	praying	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 stood	advcl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 earn	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 earn	nsubj
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 earn	aux
19	earn	earn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 praying	advcl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 bread	nmod:poss
21	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 earn	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stood	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 replied	nsubj
24	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 suffer	punct
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	34 suffer	punct
27	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	34 suffer	discourse
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Oh	punct
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Oh	vocative
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Oh	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 suffer	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 suffer	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 suffer	advmod
34	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 replied	conj
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 suffer	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 work	mark
37	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 suffer	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 overseer	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 overseer	cc
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 overseer	nsubj
41	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 overseer	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 overseer	cop
43	overseer	overseer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 replied	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 look	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 look	cc
46	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 replied	advcl
47	after	after	ADP	_	49 rest	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 rest	det
49	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 look	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	46 look	punct
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	46 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	stand	past	the old man with the long white beard		before plenty	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
2	pray	gerund	the old man with the long white beard not said here			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	earn	might	man	man's bread		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme
4	reply speech: assert	past	man			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not suffer	could	I	you		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
6	work	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	shall	you	overseer		tree rules
8	look	infinitive	man not said here		after the rest	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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