The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 74

His friends did not trouble themselves any more about him; they would not even walk down the street with him.

Who acts: friends · What happens: do, not walk down · To what, where: trouble, street

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friends	nmod:poss
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 trouble	advmod
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	5 trouble	nmod:unmarked
7	any	any	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 did	advmod
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 more	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 walk	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 walk	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 walk	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 walk	advmod
15	even	even	ADV	_	16 walk	advmod
16	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 did	conj
17	down	down	ADP	_	19 street	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 street	det
19	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 walk	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 walk	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	last's friends	trouble friends					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality
2	not walk down	would	friends = friend	the street				with last	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme street=Trajectory

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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