The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 109

He was nowhere to be seen, but in his place was his son Masilo, who was not an ogre at all, but a very polite young man.

Who acts: place, Masilo · What happens: see, be, not be · To what, where: Koane, son, ogre, all

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, Masilo), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seen	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux:pass
3	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 seen	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	6 seen	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 seen	aux:pass
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 son	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 son	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 place	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 place	nmod:poss
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 son	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 son	cop
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 son	nmod:poss
14	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seen	vocative
15	Masilo	Masilo	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 son	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ogre	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 ogre	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ogre	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 ogre	advmod
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 ogre	det
21	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Masilo	appos
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 all	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 ogre	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 man	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 man	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 man	det
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 polite	advmod
28	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 man	amod
29	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 man	amod
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seen	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past · passive		Koane		a polite young man obl; nowhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	is a	past	Koane's place	Koane's son			tree rules
3	not is a	past	Masilo	a ogre	all		tree rules

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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