The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 58

But, instead of answering rudely, like both Ardan and Ruais, he thanked her, with courtesy, though he had no mind to heed her; and he listened to the warnings and words of his new master.

Who acts: man · What happens: answer, thank, have, heed, listen, word · To what, where: maiden, mind, new master

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (man), 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	_	5 answering	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 answering	punct
3	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	5 answering	mark
4	of	of	ADP	_	3 instead	fixed
5	answering	answer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 thanked	advcl
6	rudely	rudely	ADV	_	5 answering	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Ardan	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 Ardan	case
9	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	10 Ardan	det
10	Ardan	Ardan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answering	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Ruais	cc
12	Ruais	Ruais	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Ardan	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 answering	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thanked	nsubj
15	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thanked	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 courtesy	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 courtesy	case
19	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thanked	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 had	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thanked	conj
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 mind	det
25	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 heed	mark
27	heed	heed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 mind	acl
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 heed	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 listened	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 listened	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 listened	nsubj
32	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thanked	parataxis
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 warnings	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 warnings	det
35	warnings	warning	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 listened	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 words	cc
37	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 warnings	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 master	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 master	nmod:poss
40	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 master	amod
41	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 words	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	gerund	man not said here			rudely property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	thank speech: thank	past	man		maiden	with courtesy	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	have	past	man	no mind			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
4	heed	to-infinitive	man not said here	maiden			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	listen	past	man			to the warnings and words of man's new master	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to warning=Theme
6	word			man's new master			nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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