The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 59

However, he did not say this to the old man, who had been kind to him, but just bade him farewell.

Who acts: Peter, old man · What happens: not say, be, bade · To what, where: this, old man, Peter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, old 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	However	however	ADV	_	6 say	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 say	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 man	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 kind	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 kind	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 kind	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 kind	cop
16	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	acl:relcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 kind	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bade	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 bade	cc
21	just	just	ADV	_	22 bade	advmod
22	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bade	obj
24	farewell	farewell	ADV	_	22 bade	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	Peter	this	the old man	however property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to man=Recipient
2	is	past · perfect	the old man		Peter	kind property	tree rules
3	bade	past	Peter not said here	Peter		farewell property	tree rules

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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