The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 78

“Yes, of course, that is only fair,” answered Rosald, who never cared about putting himself forward.

Who acts: that, Rosald · What happens: be, answer, not care, put · To what, where: Rosald · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (that, Rosald), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 fair	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 fair	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 of	punct
4	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	2 Yes	advmod
5	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 of	fixed
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fair	punct
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 fair	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fair	cop
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 fair	advmod
10	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 answered	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fair	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 fair	punct
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 answered	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cared	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 cared	nsubj
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 cared	advmod
18	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Rosald	acl:relcl
19	about	about	SCONJ	_	20 putting	mark
20	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 cared	advcl
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 putting	obj
22	forward	forward	ADV	_	20 putting	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	that		fair property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	Rosald			tree rules
3	not care	past	Rosald			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	put	gerund	Rosald not said here	Rosald	forward property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent himself=Goal

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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