The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 21

After dinner, which he did not eat without grumbling, for the cock was very tough, the man struck his hand on the table, and said: “Now listen to me.

Who acts: man, cock · What happens: not eat, grumble, be, strike, say, listen · To what, where: hand, 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 (man, cock), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 dinner	case
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eat	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 eat	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 eat	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 eat	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 eat	advmod
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	without	without	SCONJ	_	10 grumbling	mark
10	grumbling	grumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 eat	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tough	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 tough	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cock	det
14	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tough	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tough	cop
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 tough	advmod
17	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eat	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 struck	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 struck	nsubj
21	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tough	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hand	nmod:poss
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 struck	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 table	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 table	det
26	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 struck	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 struck	conj
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 listen	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 listen	punct
32	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 listen	advmod
33	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 said	ccomp
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 me	case
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 listen	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	past · do-support	man			after dinner		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
2	grumble speech: other	gerund	man not said here					vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the cock				tough property	tree rules
4	strike	past	the man	man's hand			on the table	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hand=Instrument on table=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	the man not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	listen in a quote	infinitive			the man = man	now		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme

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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