The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 16

But the Bad One would not care whether he were murdered or not!

Who acts: Bad One · What happens: not care, murder · To what, where: sight

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bad One), 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	_	7 care	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 One	det
3	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 One	amod
4	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 care	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 care	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 care	advmod
7	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	11 murdered	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 murdered	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 murdered	aux:pass
11	murdered	murder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 care	ccomp
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 not	cc
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 murdered	conj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 care	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not care	would	the Bad One						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	murder	past · passive		sight					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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