The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 9

He never did anything at home except sit over the stove and dirty himself with the ashes; but he also begged his father’s leave to travel for three years.

Who acts: brother · What happens: not do, dirty, beg, travel · To what, where: anything, home, brother, leave

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 (brother), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 did	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 home	case
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 anything	nmod
7	except	except	ADP	_	8 sit	case
8	sit	sit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 anything	nmod
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 stove	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stove	det
11	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dirty	cc
13	dirty	dirty	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 did	conj
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 dirty	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 ashes	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ashes	det
17	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dirty	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 begged	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 begged	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 begged	nsubj
21	also	also	ADV	_	22 begged	advmod
22	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 father	nmod:poss
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 leave	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 father	case
26	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 begged	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 travel	mark
28	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 begged	advcl
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 years	case
30	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 years	nummod
31	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 travel	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	brother	anything	home		except sit; over the stove	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
2	dirty	infinitive	brother not said here	brother			with the ashes	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent himself=Patient with ash=Instrument
3	beg speech: request	past	brother	brother's father's leave				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent leave=Recipient
4	travel	to-infinitive	brother not said here			year		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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