The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 11

The youth paid no heed to his father’s observations as long as he obtained permission to go.

Who acts: youth, father · What happens: pay, obtain, go, observe · To what, where: heed, permission

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, father), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	nsubj
3	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 heed	det
5	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 observations	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 observations	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 father	case
10	observations	observation	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 paid	obl
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 long	advmod
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 paid	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 obtained	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 obtained	nsubj
15	obtained	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 long	advcl
16	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 obtained	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 go	mark
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 permission	acl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pay	past	the youth	no heed	to youth's father's observations; long property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset
2	obtain	past	youth	permission		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Theme
3	go	to-infinitive	youth not said here	permission not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	observe		youth's father			nom observation «act transitive»: poss=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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