The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 85

“It serves you right for being so silly,” said they; but they pushed and hauled at the rock for a long time without making it move an inch.

Who acts: course, cattle · What happens: serve, be, say, push, haul, make · To what, where: you, rock, course, inch · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (course, cattle), 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	_	3 serves	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 serves	nsubj
3	serves	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 serves	obj
5	right	right	ADV	_	3 serves	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 silly	case
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 silly	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 silly	advmod
9	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 serves	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 silly	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 serves	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 serves	conj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 pushed	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 pushed	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pushed	nsubj
17	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 serves	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hauled	cc
19	hauled	haul	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 pushed	conj
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 rock	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rock	det
22	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hauled	obl
23	for	for	ADP	_	26 time	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 time	det
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 time	amod
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pushed	obl
27	without	without	SCONJ	_	28 making	mark
28	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 pushed	advcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 making	obj
30	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 making	xcomp
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 inch	det
32	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 move	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 serves	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve in a quote	present	course	you			right property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute
2	is in a quote	gerund					silly property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	cattle					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	push	past	cattle			time		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	haul	participle	cattle not said here		the rock			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	make	gerund	cattle not said here	course				tree rules
7	move	infinitive	course not said here	a inch				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent inch=Theme

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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