The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 99

The youth under the bed heard this, and thought, ‘This old fellow has done me no particular harm, but then he has bewitched my brothers and their brides, and has kept my bride for himself, and that is certainly bad enough.’

Who acts: youth, that · What happens: hear, think, do, bewitch, keep, be · To what, where: this, old fellow, me, brothers, bride · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, that), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	nsubj
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 bed	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bed	det
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 youth	nmod
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 heard	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thought	cc
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 done	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 done	punct
13	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 fellow	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fellow	amod
15	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 done	nsubj:pass
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 done	aux
17	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 thought	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 done	iobj
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 harm	det
20	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 harm	amod
21	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 done	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bewitched	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 bewitched	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 bewitched	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bewitched	nsubj
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 bewitched	aux
27	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 thought	conj
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 brothers	nmod:poss
29	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 bewitched	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 brides	cc
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 brides	nmod:poss
32	brides	bride	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 brothers	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 kept	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 kept	cc
35	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 kept	aux
36	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 bewitched	conj
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 bride	nmod:poss
38	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 kept	obj
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 himself	case
40	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 kept	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 bad	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 bad	cc
43	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 bad	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 bad	cop
45	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	46 bad	advmod
46	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heard	parataxis
47	enough	enough	ADV	_	46 bad	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the youth under the bed	this				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	past						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	do	present · perfect · passive		this old fellow	me			tree rules
4	bewitch	present · perfect	youth	my brothers and fellows's brides		then		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus brother=Experiencer
5	keep	present · perfect	youth not said here	my bride			for man	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme
6	is	present	that				bad, certainly, enough property	tree rules

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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