The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 33

But the switch paid no attention, and dealt out its blows as before, and MIGHT have been dealing them to this day, if the Holy Man had not heard their cries and come to the rescue.

Who acts: switch, Holy Man, blows · What happens: pay, deal out, deal, not hear, come, blow · To what, where: attention, blows, cries, rescue

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 (switch, Holy Man, blows), 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	_	4 paid	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 switch	det
3	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 attention	det
6	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dealt	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dealt	cc
9	dealt	deal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 paid	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 dealt	compound:prt
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 blows	nmod:poss
12	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dealt	obj
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 before	advmod
14	before	before	ADV	_	9 dealt	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dealing	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 dealing	cc
17	MIGHT	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 dealing	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 dealing	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 dealing	aux
20	dealing	deal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 paid	advcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dealing	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 day	case
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 day	det
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dealing	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 heard	punct
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 heard	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Man	det
28	Holy	Holy	PROPN	_	29 Man	compound
29	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 heard	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 heard	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 heard	advmod
32	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 paid	parataxis
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 cries	nmod:poss
34	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 heard	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 come	cc
36	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 heard	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 rescue	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 rescue	det
39	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 come	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	the switch	no attention				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
2	deal out	participle	the switch not said here	switch's blows			before property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme
3	deal	might · perfect · progressive	the switch not said here	blows = blow		day		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	not hear a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the Holy Man	blows's cries				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus
5	come	infinitive	the Holy Man not said here		the rescue			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rescue=Initial_Location
6	blow		switch					nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=agent
7	cry		blows = blow					nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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