The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 73
And though Father Grumbler DID look, it was quite true that none was to be seen.
Who acts: Father, it · What happens: look, be, see · To what, where: none
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, it), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 true | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 3 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 look | nsubj |
| 4 | Grumbler | Grumbler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Father | flat |
| 5 | DID | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 look | aux |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 true | csubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 true | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 true | cop |
| 10 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 11 true | advmod |
| 11 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 seen | mark |
| 13 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 17 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seen | aux:pass |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 seen | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 seen | aux:pass |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 true | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · do-support | Father | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | past | it | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | past · passive | none | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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