The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 29

And this was all he would say, though the servants returned to wake him many times in the night.

Who acts: Paperarello, all · What happens: say, return, wake · To what, where: Paperarello · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paperarello, all), 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	_	12 returned	cc
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 all	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 all	cop
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 returned	nsubj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 all	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 all	punct
9	though	though	ADP	_	11 servants	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 servants	det
11	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 all	nmod
12	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 wake	mark
14	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 returned	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wake	obj
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 times	amod
17	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wake	obl:unmarked
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 night	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 night	det
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wake	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	Paperarello			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	return	past	all			tree rules
3	wake	to-infinitive	all not said here	Paperarello	night; time	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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