The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 23

But it was all no use, he was quite obstinate and would not listen to a word she said.

Who acts: harm, king, stepmother · What happens: be, not listen, say · To what, where: use, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harm, king, stepmother), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 use	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 use	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 use	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	6 use	advmod
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 use	det
6	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 obstinate	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 obstinate	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 obstinate	cop
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 obstinate	advmod
11	obstinate	obstinate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 use	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 listen	cc
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 listen	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 listen	advmod
15	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 obstinate	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 word	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 word	det
18	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 listen	obl
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 word	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	harm	no use	all property	tree rules
2	is	past	king		obstinate property	tree rules
3	not listen	would	king not said here		to a word	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	stepmother	a word not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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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