The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 23
“And upon you peace,” answered the hermit; but still he never looked up, nor stopped what he was doing.
Who acts: peace · What happens: answer, not look up, stop, do · To what, where: hermit
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peace), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 peace | cc |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 peace | case |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 peace | nsubj |
| 5 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 peace | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 peace | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hermit | det |
| 10 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 looked | cc |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 looked | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 looked | advmod |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 looked | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stopped | punct |
| 19 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 20 stopped | cc |
| 20 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 looked | conj |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 doing | obj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 doing | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 doing | aux |
| 24 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 stopped | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | peace | the hermit | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hermit=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not look up | past | Peace | still | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | Peace not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | do | past · progressive | Peace | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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