The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 12

The story of the dog and his treasure soon became known, and a neighbour whose garden was next the old people’s grew so envious of their good luck that he could neither eat nor sleep.

Who acts: story, neighbour · What happens: become, know, be, eat, treasure

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, neighbour), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 became	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 dog	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 story	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 treasure	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 treasure	nmod:poss
8	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dog	conj
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 became	advmod
10	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 became	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 grew	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 grew	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 neighbour	det
15	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grew	nsubj
16	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	17 garden	nmod:poss
17	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 neighbour	conj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 grew	cop
19	next	next	ADV	_	24 grew	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 people	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 people	amod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 grew	nsubj
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 people	case
24	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 became	conj
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 envious	advmod
26	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grew	xcomp
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 luck	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 luck	nmod:poss
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 luck	amod
30	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 envious	obl
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 eat	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 eat	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 eat	aux
34	neither	neither	ADV	_	35 eat	advmod
35	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 grew	advcl
36	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	37 sleep	cc
37	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 eat	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	become	past	the story of the dog and story's treasure	soon property	tree rules
2	know	participle	the story of the dog and story's treasure not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	a neighbour and a neighbour and a neighbour's garden's garden	envious, grow, next property	tree rules
4	eat	could	story	neither property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	treasure		story		nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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