The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 31

But as he returned in the same old clothes in which he went away, his father flew into a great rage, and refused to do anything for him.

Who acts: Jenik, father · What happens: return, go away, fly, refuse, not do · To what, where: same old clothes, great rage, anything

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 (Jenik, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	18 flew	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 returned	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 returned	nsubj
4	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 flew	advcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 clothes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 clothes	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 clothes	amod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 clothes	amod
9	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 returned	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 went	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 clothes	acl:relcl
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 returned	punct
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flew	nsubj
18	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	into	into	ADP	_	22 rage	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 rage	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 rage	amod
22	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flew	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 refused	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 refused	cc
25	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 flew	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 do	mark
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 refused	xcomp
28	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 do	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 do	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	past	Jenik		the same old clothes		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go away	past	Jenik		the same old clothes	away property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in which=Location
3	fly	past	Jenik's father			into a great rage result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into rage=Result
4	refuse	past	Jenik's father not said here				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not do	to-infinitive	Jenik's father not said here	anything		for Jenik	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality

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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