The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 11

Seeing that she could do nothing with him, the mother gave him a crust of bread and a bottle of water, and took no further heed of him.

Who acts: mother, youth · What happens: see, do, give, take, heed · To what, where: nothing, crust, Simpleton, further heed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, youth), 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	Seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 gave	advcl
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 do	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Seeing	ccomp
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 do	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Seeing	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	nsubj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	iobj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 crust	det
15	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 bread	case
17	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crust	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bottle	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bottle	det
20	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crust	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 water	case
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bottle	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 took	cc
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gave	conj
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 heed	det
27	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 heed	amod
28	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 heed	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	the mother not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	could	youth	nothing		with Simpleton	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
3	give	past	the mother	a crust of bread and a bottle of water	Simpleton		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient crust=Theme
4	take	past	the mother not said here	no further heed of Simpleton			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme
5	heed			Simpleton			nom heed «cognition transitive»: of=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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