The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 96

This did not please the turtle; but he knew it was no use talking, so all he answered was:

Who acts: This, camp, slipper, use · What happens: not please, know, be, talk, answer · To what, where: turtle, use · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, camp, slipper, use), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 please	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 please	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 please	advmod
4	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 turtle	det
6	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 please	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 knew	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 knew	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knew	nsubj
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 please	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 use	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 use	cop
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 use	det
14	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knew	ccomp
15	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 use	acl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 all	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 all	mark
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 please	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 answered	nsubj
20	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 all	acl:relcl
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 all	cop
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 please	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not please	past · do-support	This	the turtle	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus turtle=Experiencer all=Result
2	know	past	camp		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	slipper	no use	tree rules
4	talk	gerund	no use not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	answer speech: assert	past	camp		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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