The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 44

The little fellow didn’t like this, and began to cry, for he was afraid of the old woman, but his mother ordered him to go, for she thought it wrong not to help such a weakly old creature; so, still crying, he gathered the cabbages into a basket and followed the old woman across the Market Place.

Who acts: little fellow, fellow, mother · What happens: not like, begin, cry, be, order, go · To what, where: this, fellow, weakly old creature, cabbages, old woman, Market Place

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 (little fellow, fellow, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fellow	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fellow	amod
3	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 like	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 like	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 like	advmod
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 like	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 like	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 cry	mark
12	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 afraid	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 afraid	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 afraid	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 afraid	cop
17	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cry	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 woman	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 woman	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 afraid	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ordered	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 ordered	cc
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mother	nmod:poss
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ordered	nsubj
26	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 like	parataxis
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 ordered	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 go	mark
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 ordered	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 thought	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 thought	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 thought	nsubj
33	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 go	advcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 wrong	nsubj
35	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 thought	ccomp
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 help	advmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 help	mark
38	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 wrong	advcl
39	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	43 creature	det:predet
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 creature	det
41	weakly	weakly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 creature	amod
42	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 creature	amod
43	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 help	obj
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 gathered	punct
45	so	so	ADV	_	51 gathered	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 crying	punct
47	still	still	ADV	_	48 crying	advmod
48	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	51 gathered	advcl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 crying	punct
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 gathered	nsubj
51	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 like	parataxis
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 cabbages	det
53	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 gathered	obj
54	into	into	ADP	_	56 basket	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 basket	det
56	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 gathered	obl
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 followed	cc
58	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 gathered	conj
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 woman	det
60	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 woman	amod
61	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 followed	obj
62	across	across	ADP	_	65 Place	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 Place	det
64	Market	Market	PROPN	Number=Sing	65 Place	compound
65	Place	Place	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 followed	obl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	the little fellow	this					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot this=Theme
2	begin	past	the little fellow not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	the little fellow not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	fellow					of the old woman; afraid property	tree rules
5	order	past	fellow's mother		fellow				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	fellow's mother not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	think speech: other	past	mother						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	not help	to-infinitive	mother not said here	such weakly old creature					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Beneficiary
9	cry speech: express	gerund	fellow not said here				still		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	gather	past	fellow	the cabbages				into a basket	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent cabbage=Patient into basket=Co-Patient
11	follow	past	fellow not said here	the old woman		the Market Place			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent woman=Theme across place=Trajectory

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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