The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 26
When he heard this, Masilo tried to look shocked because his wife had broken the law; but in his heart he was very glad.
Who acts: Masilo, wife · What happens: hear, try, look, break, be · To what, where: this, law, heart
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Masilo, wife), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tried | punct |
| 6 | Masilo | Masilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tried | nsubj |
| 7 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 look | mark |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tried | xcomp |
| 10 | shocked | shocked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 look | xcomp |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 broken | mark |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 broken | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 broken | aux |
| 15 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 look | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 law | det |
| 17 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 broken | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 glad | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 glad | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 heart | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 heart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 glad | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 glad | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 glad | cop |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 glad | advmod |
| 26 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Masilo | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | try | past | Masilo | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | look not said to happen | to-infinitive | Masilo not said here | shocked property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | break | past · perfect | Masilo's wife | the law | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer law=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Masilo | Masilo's heart | glad property | 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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