The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 50
But busy though they seemed, they found time to whisper to each other:
Who acts: innkeeper · What happens: seem, find, whisper · To what, where: each
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 (innkeeper), 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 | _ | 2 busy | cc |
| 2 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 seemed | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seemed | nsubj |
| 5 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 busy | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 busy | conj |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 whisper | mark |
| 11 | whisper | whisper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 time | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 each | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 11 whisper | obl |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 each | fixed |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | innkeeper | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | innkeeper | time | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert | to-infinitive | innkeeper not said here | each | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient |
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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