The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 184

At this they both began to weep afresh, and his mother kissed him, and put on his new clothes and said, ‘If the woman bids you to follow her, you must go,’ but the boy did not heed her grief, he was so pleased with his new clothes.

Who acts: parents, mother, woman, you, boy, father · What happens: begin, weep, kiss, put, say, bid · To what, where: this, father, new clothes, you, woman, grief · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, mother, woman, you), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 began	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 began	nsubj
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 weep	mark
7	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	afresh	afresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 weep	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kissed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 kissed	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kissed	nsubj
13	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kissed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 put	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 put	cc
17	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 began	parataxis
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 clothes	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 clothes	nmod:poss
20	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 clothes	amod
21	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	17 put	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 put	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 follow	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 follow	punct
26	If	if	SCONJ	_	29 bids	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 woman	det
28	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bids	nsubj
29	bids	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 follow	advcl
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 bids	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 follow	mark
32	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 follow	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 go	punct
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 go	nsubj
36	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 go	aux
37	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 follow	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 go	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	37 go	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 heed	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 boy	det
42	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 heed	nsubj
43	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 heed	aux
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 heed	advmod
45	heed	heed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 follow	conj
46	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 grief	nmod:poss
47	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 heed	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 pleased	punct
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 pleased	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 pleased	cop
51	so	so	ADV	_	52 pleased	advmod
52	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 follow	advcl
53	with	with	ADP	_	56 clothes	case
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 clothes	nmod:poss
55	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 clothes	amod
56	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	52 pleased	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	parents = parent		this		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	weep	to-infinitive	parents = parent not said here			afresh property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	kiss	past	father's mother	father			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
4	put	participle			father's new clothes		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination
5	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	bid a condition, not said to happen	present	the woman	you			tree rules
7	follow	to-infinitive		woman			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
8	go	must	you				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	not heed	past · do-support	the boy	woman's grief			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grief=Theme
10	is	past	father			with father's new clothes; pleased property	tree rules

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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