English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 29

She gave some to the little boy, but he would not eat.

Who acts: same, husband · What happens: give, not eat · To what, where: some, little boy

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same, husband), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 gave	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 boy	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eat	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 eat	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eat	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 eat	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 eat	advmod
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gave	parataxis
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	same	some	the little boy				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent some=Theme to boy=Recipient
2	not eat	would	husband						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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