The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 8

The father was not much in favour of this, for he was now old and weak, and could not well spare them from helping him with his work, but in the long run he had to give in.

Who acts: father, man · What happens: be, not spare, help, have, give in, work · To what, where: much favour, father, man, long run

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, man), 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 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 favour	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 favour	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 favour	amod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 favour	case
7	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 this	case
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 favour	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 old	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	15 old	case
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 old	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 old	cop
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 old	advmod
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 favour	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 weak	cc
17	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 old	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 spare	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 spare	cc
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 spare	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 spare	advmod
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 spare	advmod
23	spare	spare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 favour	parataxis
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 spare	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 helping	case
26	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 spare	obl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 helping	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 work	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 work	nmod:poss
30	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 helping	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 had	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 had	cc
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 run	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 run	det
35	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 run	amod
36	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 had	obl
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 spare	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 give	mark
40	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 had	xcomp
41	in	in	ADP	_	40 give	compound:prt
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 favour	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the father			much favour		of this	tree rules
2	is	past	man				now	old property	tree rules
3	be		man not said here						tree rules
4	not spare	could		father				well property	vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Asset
5	help	gerund			man			with man's work	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary with work=Theme
6	have	past	man			the long run			tree rules
7	give in	to-infinitive	man not said here						vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	work		man						nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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