The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 8

But all the answer he got was: “I thought you would never be able to suffer pain like those little birds.”

Who acts: answer, I, you · What happens: be, think, not be, suffer · To what, where: pain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (answer, I, you), 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	_	6 got	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 answer	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 answer	det
4	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 got	cop
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 got	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 able	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 able	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 able	advmod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 able	cop
16	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thought	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 suffer	mark
18	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 able	xcomp
19	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 suffer	obj
20	like	like	ADP	_	23 birds	case
21	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 birds	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 birds	amod
23	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 suffer	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	all answer		get property	tree rules
2	think speech: other in a quote	past	I			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is in a quote	would	you		able property	tree rules
4	suffer in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	pain	like that little birds	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pain=Stimulus

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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