The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 112

Neither wife nor children were inclined to put much faith in him after their last experience; however, they thought it was worth trying, and did as he told them.

Who acts: children, faith, cock · What happens: incline, put, think, be, try, do · To what, where: wife, faith, children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, faith, cock), 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	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	2 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 inclined	nsubj:pass
3	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	4 children	cc
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wife	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 inclined	aux:pass
6	inclined	incline	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 put	mark
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 inclined	xcomp
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 faith	advmod
10	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 put	obl
13	after	after	ADP	_	16 experience	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 experience	nmod:poss
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 experience	amod
16	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 thought	punct
18	however	however	ADV	_	21 thought	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 however	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thought	nsubj
21	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 inclined	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 worth	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 worth	cop
24	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thought	ccomp
25	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 worth	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 did	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 did	cc
28	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thought	conj
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 told	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 told	nsubj
31	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 did	advcl
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 told	iobj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 inclined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	incline	past · passive		neither wife nor children				tree rules
2	put	to-infinitive		faith		after children's last experience	in cock	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent faith=Theme in he=Destination
3	think speech: other	past	children = child				however property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	faith				worth property	tree rules
5	try	gerund	faith not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	do	past	children = child not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	tell speech: assert	past	cock		children = child			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
8	experience		children = child					nom experience «cognition 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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