The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 3

And, after he had done with school, he was put into a shop to learn how to make clothes, and did not learn; and he was put to do silversmith’s work, and did not learn; and whatsoever he was taught, he did not learn it.

Who acts: child, silversmith · What happens: do, put, learn, make, not learn, teach · To what, where: child, shop, clothes, work · 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 (child, silversmith), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 put	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 And	punct
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 done	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 done	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 put	advcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 school	case
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 done	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 put	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 put	aux:pass
12	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 shop	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 shop	det
15	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 learn	mark
17	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 put	advcl
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 make	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 make	mark
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 learn	ccomp
21	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	20 make	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 learn	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 learn	cc
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 learn	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 learn	advmod
26	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 make	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 put	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 put	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 put	aux:pass
31	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 put	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 do	mark
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 put	xcomp
34	silversmith	silversmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 work	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 silversmith	case
36	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 do	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 learn	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 learn	cc
39	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 learn	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 learn	advmod
41	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 put	parataxis
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 taught	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 taught	cc
44	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	47 taught	advmod
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 taught	nsubj:pass
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 taught	aux:pass
47	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 learn	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 learn	punct
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 learn	nsubj
50	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 learn	aux
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 learn	advmod
52	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 taught	conj
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 learn	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	child			with school	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	put	past · passive		child	a shop		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
3	learn	to-infinitive					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make	to-infinitive		clothes			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset clothes=Product
5	not learn	past · do-support					vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	put	past · passive		child			tree rules
7	do	to-infinitive		silversmith's work			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
8	not learn	past · do-support					vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	teach speech: other	past · passive		child		whatsoever property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
10	not learn	past · do-support	child	work			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
11	work		silversmith				nom work «act intransitive»: 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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