The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 20

They called to him to stop, and did all they could to prevent his going further.

Who acts: sons, landlord · What happens: call, stop, do, prevent, go · To what, where: landlord, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, landlord), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stop	mark
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 called	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 did	cc
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	parataxis
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 did	obj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 could	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 all	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 prevent	mark
14	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 did	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 going	nsubj
16	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 prevent	ccomp
17	further	further	ADV	_	16 going	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	sons = son		landlord		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	stop	to-infinitive	sons = son not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	do	past		all			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
4	prevent	to-infinitive					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality
5	go	gerund	landlord			further property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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