The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 6

But all the arguments of father and mother were wasted, for her only answer was: “O my father!

Who acts: Mibrafruz · What happens: waste, be, argue, answer · To what, where: arguments, father

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mibrafruz), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 wasted	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 arguments	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 arguments	det
4	arguments	argument	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wasted	nsubj:pass
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 father	case
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arguments	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 mother	cc
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 father	conj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wasted	aux:pass
10	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 father	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 was	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 was	mark
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 answer	nmod:poss
14	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 answer	amod
15	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 was	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 father	cop
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 was	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 father	punct
19	O	o	INTJ	_	21 father	discourse
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 father	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	waste	past · passive		all arguments of father and mother	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is a in a quote	past		my father	tree rules
3	argue			father and mother	nom argument «communication transitive»: of=patient
4	answer		Mibrafruz		nom answer «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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