The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 27

Father Grumbler was always accustomed to think of himself as so unlucky that he did not know whether the Holy Man was not playing a trick upon him; but he took the basket without being polite enough to say either “Thank you,” or “Good-morning,” and went away.

Who acts: Father, Holy Man · What happens: accustom, think, not know, not play, take, be · To what, where: Father, trick, basket, you · 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 (Father, Holy 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	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 accustomed	nsubj
2	Grumbler	Grumbler	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Father	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 accustomed	aux:pass
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 accustomed	advmod
5	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 think	mark
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 accustomed	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 think	obl
10	as	as	ADV	_	12 unlucky	advmod
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 unlucky	advmod
12	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 think	ccomp
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 know	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 know	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 know	advmod
17	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 unlucky	advcl
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	24 playing	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Man	det
20	Holy	Holy	PROPN	_	21 Man	compound
21	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 playing	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 playing	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 playing	advmod
24	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 know	ccomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 trick	det
26	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 playing	obj
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 playing	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 took	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 took	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 took	nsubj
32	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 accustomed	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 basket	det
34	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 took	obj
35	without	without	SCONJ	_	37 polite	mark
36	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 polite	cop
37	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 took	advcl
38	enough	enough	ADV	_	37 polite	advmod
39	to	to	PART	_	40 say	mark
40	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 polite	advcl
41	either	either	CCONJ	_	43 Thank	cc:preconj
42	“	"	PUNCT	_	43 Thank	punct
43	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 say	ccomp
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 Thank	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 Thank	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	43 Thank	punct
47	or	or	CCONJ	_	51 morning	cc
48	“	"	PUNCT	_	51 morning	punct
49	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 morning	amod
50	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 Good	punct
51	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 Thank	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 Thank	punct
53	”	"	PUNCT	_	43 Thank	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 went	cc
55	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 Thank	conj
56	away	away	ADV	_	55 went	advmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 accustomed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	accustom	past · passive		Father		always property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive				of Father	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not know	past · do-support	Father				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	not play	past · progressive	the Holy Man	a trick		upon Father	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme
5	take	past	Father	the basket			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme
6	is	gerund	Father not said here			enough, polite property	tree rules
7	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Father not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
9	go away	past				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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