The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 38

He had a wretched little room close to the pigsties; here he had to stay, but the whole day he sat working, and when evening was come he had made a pretty little pot.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: have, stay, sit, work, be, make · To what, where: wretched little room, little pot

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 room	det
4	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 room	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 room	amod
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 room	amod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 pigsties	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pigsties	det
10	pigsties	pigsty	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 close	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 had	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 stay	mark
16	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sat	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 sat	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 day	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 day	amod
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sat	obl:unmarked
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sat	nsubj
23	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 had	conj
24	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 sat	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 come	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 come	cc
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 come	advmod
28	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 come	obl:unmarked
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 come	cop
30	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 made	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 made	aux
33	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 come	parataxis
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 pot	det
35	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	36 little	advmod
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 pot	amod
37	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Prince	a wretched little room				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient
2	have	past	Prince		here			tree rules
3	stay	to-infinitive	Prince not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sit	past	Prince			day		tree rules
5	work	gerund	Prince not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past				evening	come property	tree rules
7	make	past · perfect	Prince	a little pot				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Product

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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