The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 2

He was a very hard-hearted man, for he could not bear poor people, and if he caught sight of a beggar anywhere near his house, he would order the servants to drive him away, or would set the dogs at him.

Who acts: Mark · What happens: be, not bear, catch, order, drive away, set · To what, where: hard hearted man, poor people, sight, servants, Mark, dogs

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mark), 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	8 man	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 hard	punct
7	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bear	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 bear	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bear	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 bear	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 bear	advmod
14	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 man	parataxis
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 people	amod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bear	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 order	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 order	cc
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 caught	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 caught	nsubj
21	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 order	advcl
22	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 caught	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 beggar	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 beggar	det
25	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sight	nmod
26	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 caught	advmod
27	near	near	ADP	_	29 house	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 house	nmod:poss
29	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 anywhere	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 caught	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 order	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 order	aux
33	order	order	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 bear	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 servants	det
35	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 order	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 drive	mark
37	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 order	advcl
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 drive	obj
39	away	away	ADV	_	37 drive	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 set	punct
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 set	cc
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 set	aux
43	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 bear	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 dogs	det
45	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 set	obj
46	at	at	ADP	_	47 him	case
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 set	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mark	a hard hearted man		tree rules
2	not bear	could	Mark	poor people		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
3	catch a condition, not said to happen	past	Mark	sight of a beggar	anywhere property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
4	order	would	Mark	the servants		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme
5	drive away	to-infinitive	Mark not said here	Mark	away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	set	would	Mark not said here	the dogs	at Mark	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dog=Theme at he=Destination
7	sight			a beggar		nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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