The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 34

The old man did not at all like parting with his precious treasure, but he never could say no, so the neighbour went off with the mortar under his arm.

Who acts: old man, man, neighbour · What happens: not do, part, not say, go off, treasure · To what, where: all, arm · 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, neighbour), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 did	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 did	obl
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 parting	mark
9	parting	part	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 did	advcl
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 treasure	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 treasure	nmod:poss
12	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 treasure	amod
13	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 parting	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 say	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 say	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 say	nsubj
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 say	advmod
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 say	aux
19	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	parataxis
20	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	19 say	discourse
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	25 went	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 neighbour	det
24	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 went	compound:prt
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 mortar	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mortar	det
29	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	obl
30	under	under	ADP	_	32 arm	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 arm	nmod:poss
32	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not do	past	the old man	all		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	part	gerund	the old man not said here		with man's precious treasure	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with treasure=Co-Patient
3	not say speech: assert	could	man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	go off	past	the neighbour	man's arm	with the mortar	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under arm=Location
5	treasure		man			nom treasure «possession 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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