The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 82

But he might as well have spoken to the rock.

Who acts: hermit · What happens: speak · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hermit), 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	_	7 spoken	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 spoken	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 spoken	aux
4	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	7 spoken	cc
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 as	fixed
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 spoken	aux
7	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 rock	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rock	det
10	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spoken	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	might · perfect	hermit					to the rock	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to rock=Co-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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