The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 2

He was a pretty little creature, and instead of growing spoilt and disagreeable at not getting everything he wanted, as even children will do sometimes, the dog was grateful to them for their kindness, and never left their side, whether they were in the house or out of it.

Who acts: couple, children, dog · What happens: be, spoil, not get, want, do, not leave · To what, where: pretty little creature, everything, children, side, house

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 (couple, children, dog), 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	6 creature	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 creature	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 creature	det
4	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 creature	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 creature	amod
6	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 spoilt	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 spoilt	cc
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 spoilt	mark
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 spoilt	aux:pass
12	spoilt	spoil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 creature	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 disagreeable	cc
14	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 spoilt	conj
15	at	at	SCONJ	_	17 getting	mark
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 getting	advmod
17	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 spoilt	advcl
18	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 getting	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wanted	nsubj
20	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 everything	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 do	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 do	mark
23	even	even	ADV	_	24 children	advmod
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 do	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 do	aux
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 spoilt	parataxis
27	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 do	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 grateful	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 dog	det
30	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 grateful	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 grateful	cop
32	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 do	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 grateful	obl
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 kindness	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 kindness	nmod:poss
37	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 grateful	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 left	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 left	cc
40	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	41 left	advmod
41	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 creature	parataxis
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 side	nmod:poss
43	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 left	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 house	punct
45	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	50 house	mark
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 house	nsubj
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 house	cop
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 house	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 house	det
50	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 left	obl
51	or	or	CCONJ	_	54 it	cc
52	out	out	ADP	_	54 it	case
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 it	case
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 house	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 creature	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	couple	a pretty little creature				tree rules
2	spoil	gerund · passive						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»
3	not get	gerund		everything				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
4	want	past	couple					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	do	future	children				sometimes property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	the dog		children = child		for children's kindness; grateful property	tree rules
7	not leave	past		children's side				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme
8	is	past	children = child			the house		tree rules

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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