More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 117

"Good morning to you, old gentleman," was the young prince's answer; frightened out of his wits though he was, he didn't like to give in.

Who acts: gentleman · What happens: be, frighten, not be, give in · To what, where: answer, wits

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 morning	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 answer	obl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 morning	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gentleman	punct
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gentleman	amod
8	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 morning	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 morning	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 morning	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 answer	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 prince	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 prince	amod
14	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 answer	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 prince	case
16	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 frightened	punct
18	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 answer	acl
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 wits	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 wits	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wits	nmod:poss
22	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 frightened	obl
23	though	though	SCONJ	_	30 like	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 like	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 like	cop
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 like	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 like	nsubj
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 like	aux
29	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 like	advmod
30	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 frightened	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 give	mark
32	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 like	xcomp
33	in	in	ADP	_	32 give	compound:prt
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the young prince's answer		morning		tree rules
2	frighten	participle		the young prince's answer not said here	gentleman's wits			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	not is	past · do-support	gentleman				like property	tree rules
4	give in not said to happen	to-infinitive	gentleman not said here					vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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