The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 121
But, in spite of this, the song rang in his ears, and daily grew louder.
Who acts: spite · What happens: ring, grow, spite · To what, where: ears, this
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spite), 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 | _ | 10 rang | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spite | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 spite | case |
| 4 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rang | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 spite | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spite | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 song | det |
| 9 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rang | nsubj |
| 10 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 ears | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ears | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rang | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 grew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 grew | cc |
| 16 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 17 grew | advmod |
| 17 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rang | conj |
| 18 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 grew | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 rang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | past | spite of this | spite's ears | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | spite of this not said here | daily, loud property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spite | this | nom spite «feeling 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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