The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 53

But Father Grumbler was wiser than they gave him credit for, and though they tried in all manner of ways to find out who had given him the basket, he put them off, and kept his secret to himself.

Who acts: Father, innkeeper, ways · What happens: be, give, try, find out, put off, keep · To what, where: credit, Father, manner, basket, innkeeper, secret

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, innkeeper, ways), 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	_	5 wiser	cc
2	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wiser	nsubj
3	Grumbler	Grumbler	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Father	flat
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wiser	cop
5	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	8 gave	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wiser	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	iobj
10	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	10 credit	fixed
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tried	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tried	cc
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 tried	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tried	nsubj
16	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wiser	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 manner	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 manner	det
19	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tried	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 ways	case
21	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 manner	nmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 find	mark
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 given	advcl
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 find	compound:prt
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 given	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 given	aux
27	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 ways	acl:relcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 given	iobj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 basket	det
30	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 given	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 put	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 put	nsubj
33	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tried	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 put	obj
35	off	off	ADP	_	33 put	compound:prt
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 kept	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 kept	cc
38	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tried	conj
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 secret	nmod:poss
40	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 kept	obj
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 himself	case
42	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 kept	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wiser	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Father				wise property	tree rules
2	give	past	innkeeper	credit	Father			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient credit=Theme
3	try	past	innkeeper			all manner of ways		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	find out	to-infinitive	ways not said here					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	give	past · perfect	ways	the basket	Father			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient basket=Theme
6	put off	past	Father	innkeeper				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal
7	keep	past	innkeeper not said here	Father's secret	Father			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=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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