The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 24

‘Your dog,’ said he, pretending to weep, ‘has suddenly fallen down dead, though I took every care of him, and gave him everything he could wish for.

Who acts: dog, I, man · What happens: say, pretend, weep, fall down, take, give · To what, where: care, everything, man · 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 (dog, I, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dog	nmod:poss
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dog	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 dog	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pretending	punct
9	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 weep	mark
11	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 pretending	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 fallen	punct
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fallen	aux
15	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	16 fallen	advmod
16	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 said	conj
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 fallen	compound:prt
18	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fallen	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 took	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 took	nsubj
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fallen	parataxis
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 care	det
24	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 care	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gave	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 gave	cc
29	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 took	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gave	iobj
31	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	29 gave	obj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 wish	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 wish	aux
34	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 everything	acl:relcl
35	for	for	ADP	_	34 wish	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Your dog				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	pretend	gerund	Your dog not said here				tree rules
3	weep	to-infinitive	Your dog not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fall down	present · perfect	Your dog not said here			dead, suddenly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take	past	I	every care of man			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
6	give	past	I not said here	everything	man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient everything=Theme
7	wish	could	man				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
8	care		man				nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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