The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 20
The man listened, but did not interfere, and the boy entered the court of the palace.
Who acts: man, boy · What happens: listen, not interfere, enter · To what, where: court
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, boy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listened | nsubj |
| 3 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 interfere | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 interfere | cc |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 interfere | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 interfere | advmod |
| 8 | interfere | interfere | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 listened | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 entered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 entered | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 entered | nsubj |
| 13 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 listened | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 court | det |
| 15 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 entered | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 palace | det |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 court | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the man | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not interfere | past · do-support | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | enter | past | the boy | the court of the palace | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme court=Destination |
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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