The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 104

And Geirald showed them the ring with pride, and listened to their words of praise, and no one would ever have guessed anyone else had destroyed the robbers.

Who acts: Geirald, people · What happens: show, listen, guess, destroy, word · To what, where: people, one, anyone, praise

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Geirald, people), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 showed	cc
2	Geirald	Geirald	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 showed	nsubj
3	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 showed	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ring	det
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showed	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 pride	case
8	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ring	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 listened	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 listened	cc
11	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 showed	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 words	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 words	nmod:poss
14	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 listened	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 praise	case
16	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 words	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 guessed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 guessed	cc
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 guessed	nsubj:pass
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 guessed	aux
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 guessed	advmod
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 guessed	aux
24	guessed	guess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 showed	parataxis
25	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 destroyed	nsubj:pass
26	else	else	ADV	_	25 anyone	advmod
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 destroyed	aux
28	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 guessed	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 robbers	det
30	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 destroyed	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	show	past	Geirald	people			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient ring=Topic
2	listen	past				to people's words of praise	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme
3	guess	would · perfect · passive		no one	ever		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	destroy	past · perfect · passive		anyone			tree rules
5	word		people	praise			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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