English Fairy Tales, XXX. Mr. Miacca., sentence 7

He not alone punished bad boys, as here, but also rewarded the good, by leaving them gifts on appropriate occasions like Santa Claus or Father Christmas, who, as is well known, only leave things for good children.

What happens: not punish, reward, leave, know · To what, where: Miacca, good, boys, appropriate occasions, things

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXX. Mr. Miacca.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	4 punished	nsubj:pass
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 punished	advmod
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 punished	advmod
4	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boys	amod
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 punished	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 here	punct
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 here	case
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 punished	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rewarded	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 rewarded	cc
12	also	also	ADV	_	13 rewarded	advmod
13	rewarded	reward	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 punished	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 good	det
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rewarded	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 leaving	punct
17	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 leaving	mark
18	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 rewarded	advcl
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 leaving	obj
20	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 leaving	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 occasions	case
22	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 occasions	amod
23	occasions	occasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 leaving	obl
24	like	like	ADP	_	25 Santa	case
25	Santa	Santa	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 occasions	nmod
26	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Santa	flat
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 Father	cc
28	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Santa	conj
29	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Father	flat
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 known	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 known	nsubj:pass
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 known	punct
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 known	mark
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 known	aux:pass
35	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 known	advmod
36	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 occasions	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 leave	punct
38	only	only	ADV	_	39 leave	advmod
39	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 known	conj
40	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 leave	obj
41	for	for	ADP	_	43 children	case
42	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 children	amod
43	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 leave	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 punished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not punish	participle · passive	Miacca		alone property	tree rules
2	reward	past	the good			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent good=Recipient
3	leave	gerund	boys = boy	appropriate occasions like Santa or Father		vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme gift=Attribute
4	know	present · passive	appropriate occasions like Santa or Father		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
5	leave	infinitive	things		for good children	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Theme for child=Recipient

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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