The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 23
Not a day passed without his bringing some story against the youth to his master, but the king understood all about the matter and paid no attention.
Who acts: groom, king · What happens: not pass, bring, understand, pay · To what, where: story, youth, attention
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (groom, king), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 passed | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 7 bringing | mark |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bringing | nsubj |
| 7 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 passed | advcl |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bringing | obj |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 youth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 youth | det |
| 12 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bringing | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 master | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 master | nmod:poss |
| 15 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bringing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 understood | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 understood | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 understood | nsubj |
| 20 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | conj |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 matter | advmod |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 matter | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 matter | det |
| 24 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 understood | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 paid | cc |
| 26 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 understood | conj |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 attention | det |
| 28 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 paid | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pass | participle | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring | gerund | groom | some story | the youth | to groom's master | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent story=Theme against youth=Destination | ||
| 3 | understand | past | the king | about the matter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about matter=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | pay | past | the king not said here | no attention | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |
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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