The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 5
And as time went on, one of the youths remarked that the girl took less notice of him than she did of his companion.
Who acts: youths, girl · What happens: go on, remark, take, do, notice · To what, where: one, less notice, maiden · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youths, girl), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 remarked | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 went | mark |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 remarked | advcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 remarked | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 youths | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 youths | det |
| 10 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 remarked | nsubj |
| 11 | remarked | remark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 took | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 remarked | ccomp |
| 16 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 notice | amod |
| 17 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 notice | nmod |
| 20 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 22 did | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 did | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | advcl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 companion | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 companion | nmod:poss |
| 25 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 did | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 remarked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | the youths not said here | time | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | past | the youths | one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the girl | less notice of maiden | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | past | girl | of maiden's companion | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | notice | maiden | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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