The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 29

But when the old man woke and thought of his dream he did not feel at all inclined to cut down the tree, which bore well every year, and consulted his wife about it.

Who acts: old man, man, tree · What happens: wake, think, not feel, incline, cut down, bear · To what, where: all, tree, wife · 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 (old man, man, tree), 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	_	6 woke	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 woke	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 woke	nsubj
6	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thought	cc
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 woke	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 dream	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dream	nmod:poss
11	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 feel	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 feel	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 feel	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 feel	advmod
15	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 thought	ccomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 feel	obl
18	inclined	incline	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 feel	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 cut	mark
20	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 inclined	xcomp
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 cut	compound:prt
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tree	det
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cut	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bore	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 bore	nsubj
26	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 tree	acl:relcl
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 bore	advmod
28	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 year	det
29	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bore	obl:unmarked
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 consulted	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 consulted	cc
32	consulted	consult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 woke	conj
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 wife	nmod:poss
34	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 consulted	obj
35	about	about	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 consulted	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 woke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	past	the old man						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	think speech: other	past	the old man not said here						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not feel	past · do-support	man			all		of man's dream	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=Location
4	incline	participle	man not said here						tree rules
5	cut down	to-infinitive	man not said here	the tree					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product
6	bear	past	the tree				year	well property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
7	consult	past	the old man not said here		man's wife			about tree	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient about it=Topic
8	dream		man						nom dream «cognition 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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