The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Hungry Grandfathers, sentence 38
Then Mr. Ogre could come in and peer and sniff about as he liked, but no chance to fill his market-basket could he find.
Who acts: Mr. Ogre, child, chance · What happens: come in, sniff, like, fill, find · To what, where: market basket
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Hungry Grandfathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr. Ogre, child, chance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 Ogre | advmod |
| 2 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ogre | compound |
| 3 | Ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 peer | cc |
| 8 | peer | peer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sniff | cc |
| 10 | sniff | sniff | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | conj |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 liked | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 liked | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 liked | nsubj |
| 14 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sniff | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 find | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 find | cc |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 chance | det |
| 18 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 find | nsubj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 fill | mark |
| 20 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 chance | acl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 basket | nmod:poss |
| 22 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 basket | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 market | punct |
| 24 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fill | obj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 find | aux |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 find | nsubj |
| 27 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 come | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | could | Mr. Ogre | peer conj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sniff | present | Mr. Ogre not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | like | past | child | about property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | fill | to-infinitive | no chance not said here | child's market basket | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent basket=Patient | ||||
| 5 | find | could | no chance | child nsubj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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: «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (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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