The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 12

He was sitting at home one morning poring over the medicine book, when some neighbours came by and said to his mother: ‘Give us this boy, that we may go together to cut wood.’

Who acts: Hassebu, neighbours, we · What happens: sit, pore, come by, say, give, go together · To what, where: home, medicine book, boy, us, wood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hassebu, neighbours, we), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sitting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sitting	aux
3	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 home	case
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sitting	obl
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 morning	nummod
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sitting	obl:unmarked
8	poring	pore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sitting	advcl
9	over	over	ADP	_	12 book	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 book	det
11	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 book	compound
12	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poring	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 came	mark
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 neighbours	det
16	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sitting	parataxis
18	by	by	ADP	_	17 came	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 mother	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mother	nmod:poss
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 Give	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 Give	punct
26	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 Give	iobj
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 boy	det
29	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Give	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 go	punct
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 go	mark
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 go	nsubj
33	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 go	aux
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 Give	conj
35	together	together	ADV	_	34 go	advmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 cut	mark
37	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 go	advcl
38	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cut	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sitting	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	Hassebu			home	morning		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location
2	pore	gerund	Hassebu not said here			the medicine book			tree rules
3	come by	past	some neighbours						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	some neighbours not said here					to Hassebu's mother	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to mother=Experiencer clause=Topic
5	give	infinitive		this boy	us				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient boy=Theme
6	go together	may	we					together property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	cut	to-infinitive	we not said here	wood					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product

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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