The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 127

When he found that his mother would really have nothing to do with him he turned away with tears in his eyes, and went sadly down the street towards his father’s stall.

Who acts: boy, mother · What happens: find, have, do, turn away, go · To what, where: nothing, eyes, street · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, mother), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 found	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 have	mark
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 have	aux
8	really	really	ADV	_	9 have	advmod
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 found	ccomp
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 have	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 nothing	acl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 turned	nsubj
16	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 do	advcl
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 turned	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 tears	case
19	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 turned	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 eyes	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 eyes	nmod:poss
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 turned	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 went	cc
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	conj
26	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	25 went	advmod
27	down	down	ADP	_	29 street	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 street	det
29	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	obl
30	towards	towards	ADP	_	34 stall	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 father	nmod:poss
32	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stall	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 father	case
34	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	boy				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	would	boy's mother	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	do	to-infinitive	boy's mother not said here	nothing not said here		with boy	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	turn away	past	boy		boy's eyes	with tears; away property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	go	past	boy not said here		the street	towards boy's father's stall; sadly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme down street=Initial_Location towards stall=Destination

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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