The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 47

Now Peppe and Alfin were very fond of Ciccu, and never refused him anything, so they let him have the coverlet and the purse without a word.

Who acts: Peppe, Ciccu · What happens: be, not refuse, let, have · To what, where: Ciccu, coverlet

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peppe, Ciccu), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 fond	advmod
2	Peppe	Peppe	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fond	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Alfin	cc
4	Alfin	Alfin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Peppe	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fond	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 fond	advmod
7	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Ciccu	case
9	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fond	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 refused	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 refused	cc
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 refused	advmod
13	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fond	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 refused	obj
15	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 refused	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 let	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 let	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 let	nsubj
19	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fond	parataxis
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 let	obj
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 let	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 coverlet	det
23	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 purse	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 purse	det
26	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 coverlet	conj
27	without	without	ADP	_	29 word	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 word	det
29	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Peppe and Alfin		now	of Ciccu; fond property	tree rules
2	not refuse	past	Peppe and Alfin not said here	Ciccu			tree rules
3	let	present	Peppe	Ciccu			tree rules
4	have	infinitive	Ciccu not said here	the coverlet and the purse		without a word	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coverlet=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 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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