English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 45

At last poor Dick could not bear this usage any longer, and he thought he would run away from his place; so he packed up his few things, and started very early in the morning, on All-hallows Day, the first of November.

Who acts: Dick, All · What happens: not bear, think, run away, pack up, start, hallow · To what, where: usage, last poor Dick, few things, Day · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick, All), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 Dick	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Dick	amod
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Dick	amod
4	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 bear	obl
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 bear	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 bear	advmod
7	bear	bear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 usage	det
9	usage	usage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bear	obj
10	any	any	ADV	_	11 longer	advmod
11	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 bear	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 thought	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thought	nsubj
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bear	advcl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 run	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 run	aux
18	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thought	ccomp
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 run	advmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 place	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 place	nmod:poss
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 away	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 packed	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 packed	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 packed	nsubj
26	packed	pack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bear	parataxis
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 packed	compound:prt
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 things	nmod:poss
29	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 things	amod
30	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 packed	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 started	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 started	cc
33	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 packed	conj
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 early	advmod
35	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 started	advmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 morning	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 morning	det
38	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 started	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 hallows	punct
40	on	on	SCONJ	_	43 hallows	mark
41	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 hallows	nsubj:outer
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 All	punct
43	hallows	hallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 started	conj
44	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 hallows	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 first	punct
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 first	det
47	first	first	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	44 Day	appos
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 November	case
49	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 first	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bear	could		this usage	last poor Dick		long property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent usage=Patient
2	think speech: other	past	Dick					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	run away	would	Dick				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pack up	past	Dick	Dick's few things				vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
5	start	past	Dick not said here			morning	early property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	hallow	present	All	Day				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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