English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 4

Merlin was much pleased with the kindness of the ploughman and his wife; but he could not help noticing that though everything was neat and comfortable in the cottage, they seemed both to be very unhappy.

Who acts: Merlin, everything, wife · What happens: be, not help, notice, seem · To what, where: cottage, both

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Merlin, everything, wife), 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	Merlin	Merlin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pleased	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pleased	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 pleased	advmod
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 kindness	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kindness	det
7	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pleased	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 ploughman	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ploughman	det
10	ploughman	ploughman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kindness	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wife	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kindness	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 help	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 help	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 help	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 help	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 help	advmod
19	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pleased	conj
20	noticing	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 help	xcomp
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 neat	mark
22	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 neat	mark
23	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	25 neat	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 neat	cop
25	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 noticing	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 comfortable	cc
27	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 neat	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 cottage	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cottage	det
30	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 neat	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 seemed	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 seemed	nsubj
33	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pleased	parataxis
34	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	33 seemed	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	38 unhappy	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 unhappy	cop
37	very	very	ADV	_	38 unhappy	advmod
38	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 seemed	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Merlin			with the kindness of the ploughman and Merlin's wife; pleased property	tree rules
2	not help	could	Merlin				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	notice not said to happen	gerund	Merlin not said here				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	everything		the cottage	neat property	tree rules
5	be		everything not said here				tree rules
6	seem	past	wife	both			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme both=Attribute
7	is	to-infinitive	wife not said here			unhappy property	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: «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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