The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 20

But he took no notice of their questions, he only said to their mother: “I’ve called for my barrel of meal.”

Who acts: fish, children · What happens: take, say, have, call, notice, question · To what, where: notice, mother, questions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish, children), 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	_	3 took	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 notice	det
5	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 questions	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 questions	nmod:poss
8	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 notice	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 said	advmod
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 mother	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mother	nmod:poss
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 ’ve	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 ’ve	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 ’ve	nsubj
19	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
20	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 ’ve	xcomp
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 barrel	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 barrel	nmod:poss
23	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 called	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 meal	case
25	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 barrel	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	fish	no notice of children's questions			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent notice=Theme clause=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	fish		children's mother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient
3	have in a quote	present	children = child				tree rules
4	call in a quote	participle	children = child not said here			for my barrel of meal	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for barrel=Recipient
5	notice			children's questions			nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient
6	question		children = child				nom question «communication 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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