The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 4

His mother never wished him to do anything he did not like, so she said: ‘Well, stay at home, my son.’

Who acts: mother, child · What happens: not wish, do, not like, say, stay · To what, where: child, anything, home · 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 (mother, child), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wished	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 wished	advmod
4	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wished	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wished	xcomp
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 do	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 like	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 like	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 like	advmod
12	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 anything	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 said	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wished	parataxis
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 stay	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 stay	punct
19	Well	well	INTJ	_	21 stay	discourse
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Well	punct
21	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 home	case
23	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stay	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 son	punct
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 son	nmod:poss
26	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stay	vocative
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 stay	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 stay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not wish	past	child's mother	child			tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	child's mother not said here	anything			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
3	not like	past · do-support	child				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	say speech: assert	past	mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	stay	infinitive			home	my son vocative	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location

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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