The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 60

The old man shook his head as he listened, and when Tiidu had finished his tale, he said: “A fool you are, and a fool you will always be!

Who acts: old man, man · What happens: shake, listen, finish, say, tell · To what, where: head, Tiidu · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shook	nsubj
4	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shook	obj
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 listened	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 listened	nsubj
9	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shook	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 finished	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 finished	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 finished	advmod
13	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 finished	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 finished	aux
15	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 shook	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tale	nmod:poss
17	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 finished	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shook	parataxis
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 fool	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 fool	punct
23	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 fool	det
24	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	ccomp
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 are	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 fool	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fool	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fool	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 fool	det
30	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shook	parataxis
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 be	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 be	aux
33	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	34 be	advmod
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 fool	acl:relcl
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	shake	past	the old man	man's head	tree rules
2	listen	past	man		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	finish	past · perfect · passive		Tiidu	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	tell		man		nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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 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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