The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 50

This time, to his great annoyance, the number was different; so he reckoned them for the third time, but now the number was not the same as either of the previous ones!

Who acts: time, gnome, number · What happens: be, reckon, not be, annoy · To what, where: commands

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, gnome, number), 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 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 different	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 annoyance	punct
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 annoyance	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 annoyance	nmod:poss
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 annoyance	amod
7	annoyance	annoyance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 time	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 time	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 number	det
10	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 different	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 different	cop
12	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 reckoned	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 reckoned	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 reckoned	nsubj
16	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 different	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 reckoned	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 time	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 time	det
20	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 time	amod
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reckoned	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 same	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 same	cc
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 same	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 number	det
26	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 same	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 same	cop
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 same	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 same	det
30	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 different	conj
31	as	as	ADP	_	32 either	case
32	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	30 same	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 ones	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ones	det
35	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 ones	amod
36	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 either	nmod
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 different	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this time and gnome's great annoyance			different property	tree rules
2	reckon	past	gnome	commands = command	time		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Attribute
3	not is	past	the number		now	as either; same property	tree rules
4	annoy		gnome				nom annoyance «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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