The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 107

This command did not at all please the old woman, though, of course, she made no objections to the sultan.

Who acts: command · What happens: not do, make · To what, where: objections

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (command), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 command	det
2	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 did	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	10 woman	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 woman	nsubj
7	please	please	INTJ	_	10 woman	discourse
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 though	punct
12	though	though	ADV	_	10 woman	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 made	mark
15	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 of	fixed
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 of	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	nsubj
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 objections	det
20	objections	objection	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 made	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 sultan	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sultan	det
23	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	this command					at the old woman	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	past	Command	no objections				to the sultan	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent objection=Product

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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