The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 69

But the little grey dwarf began now to demand his beard again from the youth, for in his wicked heart he was determined to make an end of all their happiness; he knew that if only his beard were once more on his chin, he would be able to do what he liked with them all.

Who acts: little grey dwarf, dwarf, beard · What happens: begin, demand, be, make, know, do · To what, where: beard, youth, wicked heart, end, apartments · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little grey dwarf, dwarf, beard), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 began	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dwarf	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dwarf	amod
4	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dwarf	amod
5	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 began	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 demand	mark
9	demand	demand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 beard	nmod:poss
11	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 demand	obj
12	again	again	ADV	_	9 demand	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 youth	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 youth	det
15	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 demand	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 heart	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	21 heart	case
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 heart	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 heart	nmod:poss
20	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 heart	amod
21	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 demand	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 determined	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 determined	cop
24	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 heart	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 make	mark
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 determined	xcomp
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 end	det
28	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 happiness	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 happiness	det:predet
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 happiness	nmod:poss
32	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 end	nmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 knew	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 knew	nsubj
35	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	parataxis
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 able	mark
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 once	mark
38	only	only	ADV	_	40 beard	advmod
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 beard	nmod:poss
40	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 once	nsubj
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 once	cop
42	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	43 more	advmod
43	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	51 able	advmod
44	on	on	ADP	_	46 chin	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 chin	nmod:poss
46	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 more	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 more	punct
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 able	nsubj
49	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 able	aux
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 able	cop
51	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 knew	ccomp
52	to	to	PART	_	53 do	mark
53	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 able	xcomp
54	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	56 liked	obj
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 liked	nsubj
56	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 do	advcl
57	with	with	ADP	_	58 them	case
58	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 liked	obj
59	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	58 them	nmod:unmarked
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the little grey dwarf			now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	demand speech: request	to-infinitive	the little grey dwarf not said here	dwarf's beard	the youth	again	for dwarf's wicked heart	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Theme beard=Precondition from youth=Source
3	is	past	dwarf	dwarf's wicked heart not said here			determined property	tree rules
4	make	to-infinitive	dwarf not said here	a end of apartments's happiness				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset end=Product
5	know	past	dwarf					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a condition, not said to happen	past	dwarf's beard				once property	tree rules
7	is	would	dwarf				able property	tree rules
8	do	to-infinitive	dwarf not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	like	past	dwarf	apartments = apartment				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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