The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 81

Neither scoldings nor beatings nor kind words had any effect on him, and the older he grew the idler he got.

Who acts: scoldings, man · What happens: have, grow, get · To what, where: effect, idler

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scoldings, man), 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	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	2 scoldings	det
2	scoldings	scolding	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	nsubj
3	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	4 beatings	cc
4	beatings	beating	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scoldings	conj
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	7 words	cc
6	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 words	amod
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scoldings	conj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 effect	det
10	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grew	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 grew	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 older	det
16	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 grew	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 grew	nsubj
18	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 had	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 idler	det
20	idler	idler	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grew	obj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 got	nsubj
22	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 idler	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	neither scoldings nor beatings nor kind words	any effect	on man	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient
2	grow	past	man	the idler		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location idler=Theme
3	get	past	man	the idler not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer idler=Stimulus

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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