The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 85
But Gudu pretended not to hear him, and strode along the path.
Who acts: Gudu · What happens: pretend, not hear · To what, where: Gudu
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gudu), 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 | _ | 3 pretended | cc |
| 2 | Gudu | Gudu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pretended | nsubj |
| 3 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 hear | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hear | mark |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pretended | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hear | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 path | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 path | cc |
| 10 | strode | strode | ADV | _ | 13 path | advmod |
| 11 | along | along | ADP | _ | 13 path | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 path | det |
| 13 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pretended | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pretended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past | Gudu | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not hear | to-infinitive | Gudu not said here | Gudu | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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