The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 18

“Harm!” repeated the echoes, but again the young man paid no heed.

Who acts: Harm, young man · What happens: repeat, pay · To what, where: echoes, heed

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Harm, young man), 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	_	2 Harm	punct
2	Harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 repeated	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Harm	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Harm	punct
5	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 echoes	det
7	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 repeated	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 paid	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 paid	cc
10	again	again	ADV	_	14 paid	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 paid	nsubj
14	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 repeated	conj
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 heed	det
16	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 paid	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	past	Harm	the echoes					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent echo=Eventuality
2	pay	past	the young man	no heed			again		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset

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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