Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 3

And no matter what the story was about, he never grew tired of hearing it, even though it was very long.

Who acts: story, matter, work · What happens: be, not grow, hear · To what, where: work

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Endless Tale.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, matter, work), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 what	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 matter	det
3	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 what	nsubj
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 about	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 about	cop
8	about	about	ADV	_	4 what	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grew	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 grew	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 grew	advmod
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl
13	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grew	xcomp
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 hearing	mark
15	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 tired	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hearing	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 long	punct
18	even	even	ADV	_	23 long	advmod
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 long	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 long	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 long	cop
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 long	advmod
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grew	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the story		about property	tree rules
2	not grow	past	matter		tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	gerund	matter not said here	work		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	is	past	work		long property	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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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