The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 11
His father grew very tired of him and often wished him dead, but he did not die, but lay on there year after year.
Who acts: father, farmer · What happens: grow, wish, not die, lay · To what, where: farmer
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, farmer), 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 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 tired | advmod |
| 5 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tired | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wished | cc |
| 9 | often | often | ADV | _ | 10 wished | advmod |
| 10 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wished | obj |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wished | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 die | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 die | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 die | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 die | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 die | advmod |
| 18 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 grew | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lay | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 lay | cc |
| 21 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | advcl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 year | case |
| 23 | there | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Typo=Yes | 24 year | nmod:poss |
| 24 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lay | obl |
| 25 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 year | case |
| 26 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lay | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | farmer's father | tired property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | farmer's father not said here | farmer | dead, often property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | |||
| 3 | not die | past · do-support | farmer | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | lay | present | farmer's father not said here | year | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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