The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 3

Many and many a time, when he met other farmers at the nearest market town, they would teaze him, asking how it came about that he was childless.

Who acts: farmer, children, thing · What happens: meet, teaze, ask, come about, be · To what, where: other farmers, nearest market town, farmer · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (farmer, children, thing), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 many	cc
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Many	conj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 teaze	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 met	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 met	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 met	nsubj
9	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 time	acl:relcl
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 farmers	amod
11	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 met	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	16 town	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 town	det
14	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 town	amod
15	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 town	compound
16	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 met	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 teaze	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 teaze	aux
20	teaze	teaze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 teaze	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 asking	punct
23	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 teaze	advcl
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 came	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 asking	ccomp
27	about	about	ADP	_	26 came	obl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 childless	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 childless	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 childless	cop
31	childless	childless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 came	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 teaze	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	farmer	other farmers	the nearest market town			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Co-Agent
2	teaze	would	children = child	farmer		time		tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	gerund	children = child not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come about	past	thing					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	farmer				childless 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 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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