The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 114

Father Grumbler stared in silence for an instant, and then he began to swear so loudly that even his family, accustomed as they were to his language, wondered at him.

Who acts: Father, diamonds · What happens: stare, begin, swear, accustom, be, wonder · To what, where: family

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 (Father, diamonds), 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	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stared	nsubj
2	Grumbler	Grumbler	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Father	flat
3	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 silence	case
5	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stared	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 instant	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 instant	det
8	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stared	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 began	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stared	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 swear	mark
15	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 loudly	advmod
17	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	15 swear	advmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 family	mark
19	even	even	ADV	_	21 family	advmod
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 family	nmod:poss
21	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 swear	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 accustomed	punct
23	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 family	acl
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 language	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 language	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 language	cop
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 language	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 language	nmod:poss
29	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 accustomed	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 wondered	punct
31	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 began	conj
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wondered	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stare	past	Father			for a instant; in silence	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in silence=Theme
2	begin	past	Father		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	swear	to-infinitive	Father not said here	Father's family		loudly property	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	accustom	participle		Father's family not said here			tree rules
5	is	past	diamonds = diamond			to Father's language	tree rules
6	wonder speech: ask	past	Father not said here			at Father	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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