English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil, sentence 23

“Enough, enough!” gasped the lad; but the demon heeded him not; the lad didn't know the words by which to send him away, and still he fetched water.

Who acts: Enough enough, demon, lad · What happens: gasp, not heed, not know, send away, fetch · To what, where: lad, words, water

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Master and His Pupil. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Enough enough, demon, lad), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 enough	punct
2	Enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 enough	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Enough	punct
4	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gasped	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 enough	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 enough	punct
7	gasped	gasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lad	det
9	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gasped	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 heeded	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 heeded	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 demon	det
13	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heeded	nsubj
14	heeded	heed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gasped	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 heeded	obj
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 heeded	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 know	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lad	det
19	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 know	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 know	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 know	advmod
22	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 gasped	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 words	det
24	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 know	obj
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 send	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 send	mark
28	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 know	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 send	obj
30	away	away	ADV	_	28 send	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 fetched	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 fetched	cc
33	still	still	ADV	_	35 fetched	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 fetched	nsubj
35	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gasped	conj
36	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fetched	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gasped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	gasp	past	Enough enough	the lad			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Topic
2	not heed	past	the demon	lad			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	not know	past · do-support	the lad	the words			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
4	send away	to-infinitive	the lad not said here	lad		away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	fetch	past	lad	water	still		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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