The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 41
This time the old man did not wait to consult his wife as to whether he was to do what his dog had told him, but directly he got up he went to his neighbour’s house and collected the ashes of the burnt mortar.
Who acts: old man, man · What happens: not wait, consult, be, tell, get up, go · To what, where: wife, dog, man, house, ashes · 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), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 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 | 8 wait | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wait | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 wait | advmod |
| 8 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 consult | mark |
| 10 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wait | xcomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 consult | obj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 as | fixed |
| 15 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | cop |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 consult | advcl |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 told | obj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 dog | nmod:poss |
| 22 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 told | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 told | aux |
| 24 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 do | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 told | iobj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 went | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 went | cc |
| 28 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 30 got | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 got | nsubj |
| 30 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 went | advcl |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 got | compound:prt |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 went | nsubj |
| 33 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wait | parataxis |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 house | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 36 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 house | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 36 neighbour | case |
| 38 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 went | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 collected | cc |
| 40 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 went | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 ashes | det |
| 42 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 collected | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 mortar | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 mortar | det |
| 45 | burnt | burnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 mortar | amod |
| 46 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 ashes | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait | past · do-support | the old man | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | consult | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | man's wife | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | man | do property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | man's dog | man | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get up | past | man | directly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | go | past | man | man's neighbour's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | collect | past | man not said here | the ashes of the burnt mortar | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ash=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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