The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 10

The husband spent all his time in hunting, and the family had never had so much meat before; but the man, who had seen for himself how poor they were, noticed with amazement that they did not seem to care about it, or to be hungry.

Who acts: husband, family, man, corner · What happens: spend, not have, see, notice, not seem, care · To what, where: hunting, much meat, corner

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, family, man, corner), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 husband	det
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spent	nsubj
3	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 time	det:predet
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 time	nmod:poss
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spent	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 hunting	case
8	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spent	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 family	det
12	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 had	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 had	advmod
15	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 spent	parataxis
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 meat	amod
18	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
19	before	before	ADV	_	15 had	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 seen	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 seen	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seen	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 seen	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 seen	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 seen	aux
27	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 spent	parataxis
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 himself	case
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 seen	obl
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 poor	advmod
31	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 seen	xcomp
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 noticed	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 noticed	aux:pass
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 noticed	punct
35	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 seen	conj
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 amazement	case
37	amazement	amazement	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 noticed	obl
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 seem	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 seem	nsubj
40	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 seem	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 seem	advmod
42	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 noticed	advcl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 care	mark
44	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 seem	xcomp
45	about	about	ADP	_	46 it	case
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 care	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 hungry	punct
48	or	or	CCONJ	_	51 hungry	cc
49	to	to	PART	_	51 hungry	mark
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 hungry	cop
51	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spent	parataxis
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	the husband		hunting	time		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not have	past · perfect	the family	much meat			before property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
3	see	past · perfect	the man				for man; poor property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	notice	past · passive		corner			with amazement	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
5	not seem	past · do-support	corner					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	care	to-infinitive	corner not said here				about family	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus
7	is	to-infinitive					hungry property	tree rules

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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