The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 75
The father listened to Thakane’s words, but made no answer.
Who acts: father, Thakane · What happens: listen, make, word · To what, where: answer
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 (father, Thakane), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listened | nsubj |
| 3 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 words | case |
| 5 | Thakane | Thakane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 words | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Thakane | case |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 listened | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 listened | conj |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 answer | det |
| 12 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the father | to Thakane's words | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the father not said here | no answer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset answer=Product | ||||
| 3 | word | Thakane | nom word «communication transitive»: 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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