The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 37
After that he was harnessed to a plough, and had plenty of time to remember all he had lost through not listening to the counsel of the boy.
What happens: harness, have, remember, lose, not listen · To what, where: that, plenty, all · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 harnessed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 harnessed | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 harnessed | aux:pass |
| 5 | harnessed | harness | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 plough | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 plough | det |
| 8 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 harnessed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 harnessed | conj |
| 12 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plenty | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 remember | mark |
| 16 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 had | advcl |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lost | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lost | aux |
| 20 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 remember | ccomp |
| 21 | through | through | SCONJ | _ | 23 listening | mark |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 listening | advmod |
| 23 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 lost | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 counsel | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 counsel | det |
| 26 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 listening | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 boy | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 boy | det |
| 29 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 counsel | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 harnessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | harness | past · passive | that | to a plough | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to plough=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | plenty of time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | |||||
| 3 | remember | to-infinitive | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | lose | past · perfect · passive | all | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | not listen | gerund | to the counsel of the boy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to counsel=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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