The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 20

However, she said nothing, and began to roast the cock, while her husband did his best to make the man sleepy with wine, but all in vain.

Who acts: wife, husband · What happens: say, begin, roast, do, make · To what, where: nothing, cock, best, man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wife, husband), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 said	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 began	cc
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	10 roast	mark
10	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cock	det
12	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 roast	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 did	punct
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 did	mark
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 husband	nmod:poss
16	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 did	nsubj
17	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 began	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 best	nmod:poss
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 did	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 make	mark
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 did	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
24	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 wine	case
26	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sleepy	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 vain	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 vain	cc
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 vain	nsubj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 vain	case
31	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	wife	nothing	however property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	begin	past				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	roast	to-infinitive		the cock		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cock=Patient
4	do	past	wife's husband	husband's best		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
5	make	to-infinitive	wife's husband not said here	the man		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset man=Product

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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