The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 102

The steward was so much accustomed to hearing stories of no importance that he thought there was no use going further with this, but reported to the princess that the newcomers had nothing to tell.

Who acts: steward, use, newcomers · What happens: accustom, think, be, go, report, have · To what, where: steward, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steward, use, newcomers), 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	2 steward	det
2	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 accustomed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 accustomed	aux:pass
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 accustomed	advmod
6	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 stories	case
8	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stories	compound
9	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 accustomed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 importance	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 importance	det
12	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stories	nmod
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 thought	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thought	nsubj
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 accustomed	advcl
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thought	ccomp
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 use	det
19	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 was	nsubj
20	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 use	acl
21	further	further	ADV	_	20 going	advmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 this	case
23	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 going	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 reported	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 reported	cc
26	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 thought	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 princess	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 princess	det
29	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reported	obl
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 had	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 newcomers	det
32	newcomers	newcomer	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 reported	ccomp
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	33 had	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 tell	mark
36	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 nothing	acl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 accustomed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	accustom	past · passive		the steward		to hearing stories of no importance	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	steward				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	be	past	no use		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	gerund	no use not said here			with this; further property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with this=Beneficiary
5	report	participle	steward not said here			to the princess	vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent to princess=be' clause=Attribute
6	have	past	the newcomers	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
7	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the newcomers not said here	nothing not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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