The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 99

But because the old man did not like being left alone, they went and fetched him.

Who acts: old man, toads · What happens: not like, leave, go, fetch · To what, where: man

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, toads), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
2	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 like	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 like	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 like	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 like	advmod
8	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 went	advcl
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 left	aux:pass
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 like	xcomp
11	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 left	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fetched	cc
16	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fetched	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	the old man			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	leave not said to happen	gerund · passive	the old man not said here		alone property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»
3	go	past	toads = toad			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fetch	past	toads = toad not said here	man		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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