The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 7

When they had gone the poor Simpleton began to tease his mother to smarten him up and let him start off.

Who acts: brothers, poor Simpleton, Simpleton · What happens: go, begin, tease, smarten up, let, start off · To what, where: mother, Simpleton

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 (brothers, poor Simpleton, Simpleton), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 gone	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 began	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Simpleton	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Simpleton	amod
7	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 began	nsubj
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 tease	mark
10	tease	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tease	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 smarten	mark
14	smarten	smarten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tease	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 smarten	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 smarten	compound:prt
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 let	cc
18	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 smarten	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 start	compound:prt
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	brothers = brother		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	the poor Simpleton		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	tease	to-infinitive	the poor Simpleton not said here	Simpleton's mother	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient
4	smarten up	to-infinitive	the poor Simpleton not said here	Simpleton	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	let	infinitive	the poor Simpleton not said here	Simpleton	tree rules
6	start off	infinitive	Simpleton not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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