The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 47

Only the old man did not bow himself, and the great lord saw this, and bade one of his courtiers, in anger, go and inquire why he had disobeyed the ancient customs.

Who acts: old man, great lord, man · What happens: not bow, see, go, inquire, disobey · To what, where: man, anger, this, ancient customs · 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, great lord, 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	Only	only	ADV	_	4 man	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bow	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bow	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 bow	advmod
7	bow	bow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 bow	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lord	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lord	amod
13	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bow	conj
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 saw	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bade	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bade	cc
18	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obl
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 bade	flat
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 courtiers	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 courtiers	nmod:poss
22	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 one	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 anger	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 anger	case
25	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bow	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
27	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 bow	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 inquire	cc
29	inquire	inquire	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 go	conj
30	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	33 disobeyed	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 disobeyed	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 disobeyed	aux
33	disobeyed	disobey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 inquire	ccomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 customs	det
35	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 customs	amod
36	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 disobeyed	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not bow	past · do-support	the old man	man	anger		vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
2	see	past	the great lord	this		bade obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
3	go	infinitive					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	inquire speech: other	infinitive					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	disobey	past · perfect	man	the ancient customs			tree rules

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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