The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 23

When he remembered that he would have to go with his story to the old man and his wife he was rather frightened, but there was nothing to be gained by putting it off, so he pulled a very long face and went to his neighbour’s garden.

Who acts: man, wife, nothing · What happens: remember, have, go, be, gain, put off · To what, where: man, trick, long face, garden

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 (man, wife, nothing), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 remembered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 remembered	nsubj
3	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 have	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 remembered	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	xcomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 story	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 story	nmod:poss
12	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 man	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wife	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wife	nmod:poss
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 man	conj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 frightened	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 frightened	cop
22	rather	rather	ADV	_	23 frightened	advmod
23	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wife	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 was	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 was	cc
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 was	expl
27	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remembered	parataxis
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 was	nsubj
29	to	to	PART	_	31 gained	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 gained	aux:pass
31	gained	gain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 nothing	acl
32	by	by	SCONJ	_	33 putting	mark
33	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 gained	advcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 putting	obj
35	off	off	ADP	_	33 putting	compound:prt
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 pulled	punct
37	so	so	ADV	_	39 pulled	advmod
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 pulled	nsubj
39	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remembered	parataxis
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 face	det
41	very	very	ADV	_	42 long	advmod
42	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 face	amod
43	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 pulled	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 went	cc
45	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 pulled	conj
46	to	to	ADP	_	50 garden	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 neighbour	nmod:poss
48	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 garden	nmod:poss
49	’s	's	PART	_	48 neighbour	case
50	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 went	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remember	past	man				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	would	man				tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	man not said here			with man's story; to the old man and man's wife	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to man=Initial_Location
4	is	past · passive	man's wife not said here	man		frightened property	tree rules
5	be	past	nothing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	gain	to-infinitive · passive	nothing not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»
7	put off	gerund	nothing not said here	trick			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
8	pull	past	man	a long face			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme
9	go	past	man not said here		man's neighbour's garden		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to garden=Initial_Location

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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