The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 16

But the envious neighbour would not heed his words, and came daily with the same request, till at last the old people, who could not bear to say no to anyone, promised to lend the dog, just for a night or two.

Who acts: envious neighbour, old people, man · What happens: not heed, come, not bear, say, promise, lend · To what, where: words, no, anyone, dog · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (envious neighbour, old people, man), 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	_	7 heed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 neighbour	det
3	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 neighbour	amod
4	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heed	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 heed	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 heed	advmod
7	heed	heed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 words	nmod:poss
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 heed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heed	parataxis
13	daily	daily	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 request	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 request	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 request	amod
17	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 last	punct
19	till	till	ADP	_	21 last	case
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 last	case
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 came	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 people	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 people	amod
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 last	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bear	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 bear	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 bear	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 bear	advmod
29	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 people	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 say	mark
31	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 bear	xcomp
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 say	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 anyone	case
34	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	31 say	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 promised	punct
36	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 anyone	acl:relcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 lend	mark
38	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 promised	xcomp
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 dog	det
40	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lend	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 night	punct
42	just	just	ADV	_	45 night	advmod
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 night	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 night	det
45	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lend	obl
46	or	or	CCONJ	_	47 two	cc
47	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 night	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 heed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not heed	would	the envious neighbour	man's words				vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	come	past					with the same request; daily property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not bear	could	the old people					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the old people not said here	no	anyone			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to anyone=Recipient
5	promise speech: promise	past						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	lend not said to happen	to-infinitive		the dog		night		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
7	word		man					nom word «communication 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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