The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 12

After a time the younger brother had grown big, and he was a handsome boy, and the woman fell in love with him, but he took no notice of her.

Who acts: younger brother, brother, woman · What happens: grow, be, fall, take, notice · To what, where: handsome boy, love, notice, woman

This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Nothing Child. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (younger brother, brother, woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grown	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brother	det
5	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 brother	amod
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grown	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grown	aux
8	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grown	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 boy	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 boy	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 boy	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 boy	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 boy	det
15	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boy	amod
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grown	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fell	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fell	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 woman	det
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fell	nsubj
21	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grown	parataxis
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 love	case
23	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fell	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fell	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 took	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 took	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 took	nsubj
29	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fell	conj
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 notice	det
31	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 took	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 notice	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 grown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · perfect	the younger brother			time	big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	brother	a handsome boy				tree rules
3	fall	past	the woman		love		with brother	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location
4	take	past	brother	no notice of woman				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
5	notice			woman				nom notice «communication 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 Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Project Gutenberg book 66596 (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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 12

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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 12