The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 72

But he only laughed and declared that he did not like sermons, adding:

Who acts: widow · What happens: laugh, declare, not like, add · To what, where: sermons · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow), 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	_	4 laughed	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 laughed	advmod
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 declared	cc
6	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 like	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 like	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 like	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 like	advmod
11	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 declared	ccomp
12	sermons	sermon	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 like	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 adding	punct
14	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 like	advcl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	laugh	past	widow		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	declare speech: other	past	widow not said here		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not like	past · do-support	widow	sermons	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sermon=Theme
4	add speech: assert	gerund	widow not said here		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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