The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 33

But it was not long before this story also came to the ears of their envious neighbour, and he lost no time in going to the old people and asking if they happened to have a mortar which they could lend him.

Who acts: heart, story, people, mortar · What happens: not be, come, lose, go, ask, happen · To what, where: ears, mortar, story

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 (heart, story, people, mortar), 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	_	5 long	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 long	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 long	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 came	advmod
6	before	before	ADP	_	8 story	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
9	also	also	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 ears	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ears	det
13	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 neighbour	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 neighbour	nmod:poss
16	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 neighbour	amod
17	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ears	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lost	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lost	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lost	nsubj
21	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 time	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lost	obj
24	in	in	SCONJ	_	25 going	mark
25	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 lost	advcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 people	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 people	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 people	amod
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 going	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 asking	cc
31	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 going	conj
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 happened	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 happened	nsubj
34	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 asking	ccomp
35	to	to	PART	_	36 have	mark
36	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 happened	xcomp
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 mortar	det
38	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 have	obj
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 lend	nsubj
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 lend	nsubj
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 lend	aux
42	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 mortar	acl:relcl
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 lend	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	heart				long property	tree rules
2	come	past			the ears of ears's envious neighbour	before this story		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ear=Initial_Location
3	lose	past	story			time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	gerund	story not said here				to the old people	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to people=Initial_Location
5	ask speech: ask	gerund	story not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	happen a condition, not said to happen	past	people					tree rules
7	have	to-infinitive	people not said here	a mortar				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mortar=Patient
8	lend	could	a mortar	story				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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