The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 107
His wife pretended not to hear him, and sang and sang the same tune all the time they were on the water.
Who acts: wife, time · What happens: pretend, not hear, sing, be · To what, where: fish, same tune, water
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, time), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pretended | nsubj |
| 3 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 hear | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hear | mark |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pretended | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hear | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sang | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sang | cc |
| 10 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pretended | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sang | cc |
| 12 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sang | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tune | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tune | amod |
| 15 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sang | obj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 time | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 water | nsubj |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 water | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 water | cop |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 water | det |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tune | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pretended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past | fish's wife | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not hear | to-infinitive | fish's wife not said here | fish | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | fish's wife not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | fish's wife not said here | the same tune | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tune=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | all time | the same tune not said here | the water | tree rules |
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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