The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 11

When it happened a fourth time the boy grew cross, and said to himself, ‘It is no good going on; there seems to be a beardless man in every mill’; and he took his sack from his back, and made up his mind to grind his corn where he was.

Who acts: it, boy, road, man · What happens: happen, grow, say, be, go on, seem · To what, where: fourth time, boy, beardless man, mill, sack, back · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, boy, road, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 happened	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happened	obl:unmarked
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grew	nsubj
9	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 time	acl:relcl
10	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grew	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 good	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 good	punct
18	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 good	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 good	cop
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 good	det
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	parataxis
22	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 good	advcl
23	on	on	ADP	_	22 going	compound:prt
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 seems	punct
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 seems	expl
26	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	31 man	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 man	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 man	det
30	beardless	beardless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 man	amod
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seems	ccomp
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 mill	case
33	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	34 mill	det
34	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 man	nmod
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 man	punct
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 took	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 took	cc
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 took	nsubj
39	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 sack	nmod:poss
41	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 took	obj
42	from	from	ADP	_	44 back	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 back	nmod:poss
44	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 took	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 made	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 made	cc
47	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 said	parataxis
48	up	up	ADP	_	47 made	compound:prt
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 mind	nmod:poss
50	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 made	obj
51	to	to	PART	_	52 grind	mark
52	grind	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 made	advcl
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 corn	nmod:poss
54	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 grind	obj
55	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	57 was	advmod
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 was	nsubj
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 corn	acl:relcl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it				time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	the boy	a fourth time not said here				cross property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past			boy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
4	is	present	road					good property	tree rules
5	go on	gerund	road not said here						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	seem	present				there			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
7	is a	to-infinitive		a beardless man		every mill			tree rules
8	take	past	boy	man's sack		man's back			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent sack=Theme from back=Initial_Location
9	make up	participle		man's mind					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
10	grind	to-infinitive		man's corn					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient
11	mind		man						nom mind «cognition 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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