The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 7
So he turned a deaf ear and finished his dinner.
Who acts: man · What happens: turn, finish · To what, where: deaf ear, dinner
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ear | det |
| 5 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ear | amod |
| 6 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 finished | cc |
| 8 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 finished | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | man | a deaf ear | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | ||||
| 2 | finish | past | man not said here | man's dinner | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality dinner=Eventuality |
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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