The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 12

The man listened quietly, and did not appear so surprised as Jimmu expected, for he recollected having heard, in his youth, something about a wonder-working kettle.

Who acts: man, Jimmu · What happens: listen, not appear, expect, recollect, have, hear · To what, where: youth

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Jimmu), 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 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 listened	nsubj
3	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	3 listened	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 appear	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 appear	cc
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 appear	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 appear	advmod
9	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 listened	parataxis
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 surprised	advmod
11	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 appear	xcomp
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 expected	mark
13	Jimmu	Jimmu	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 expected	nsubj
14	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 surprised	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 recollected	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 recollected	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 recollected	nsubj
18	recollected	recollect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 appear	conj
19	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 recollected	advcl
20	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 having	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 youth	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 youth	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 youth	nmod:poss
24	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 having	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 something	punct
26	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 youth	appos
27	about	about	ADP	_	32 kettle	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 kettle	det
29	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 working	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 wonder	punct
31	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 kettle	amod
32	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 something	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	listen	past	the man		quietly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	not appear	past · do-support			surprised property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	expect	past	Jimmu			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	recollect	past	Jimmu			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	have	gerund	Jimmu not said here	Jimmu's youth		tree rules
6	hear	participle	Jimmu not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
7	work	gerund				vn employment-95.3 «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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