The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 29
But it was no use staying: perhaps next morning the old man might listen to reason, though in his heart the son felt that he would never take back his words.
Who acts: face, old man, man · What happens: stay, listen, feel, not take back, word · To what, where: next morning, heart, words
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, old man, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 staying | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 staying | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 staying | aux |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 use | det |
| 5 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 staying | nsubj |
| 6 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 morning | punct |
| 8 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 10 morning | advmod |
| 9 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 morning | amod |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 staying | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 listen | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 listen | aux |
| 15 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 morning | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 reason | case |
| 17 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 listen | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 felt | punct |
| 19 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 25 felt | mark |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 heart | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 heart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 felt | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 son | det |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heart | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 staying | conj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 take | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 take | nsubj |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 take | aux |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 take | advmod |
| 30 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 felt | ccomp |
| 31 | back | back | ADV | _ | 30 take | advmod |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 words | nmod:poss |
| 33 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 take | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 staying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past · progressive | face | morning | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | listen | might | the old man | next morning not said here | to reason | tree rules | |||
| 3 | feel | past | face not said here | man's heart the son | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not take back | would | man | man's words | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 5 | word | man | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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