The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 64

He had never read Kalevala and knew nothing of the sea gods of old, but the students proceeded to explain to him.

Who acts: Ahtola, students · What happens: not read, know, proceed, explain · To what, where: Kalevala, nothing, Ahtola

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 (Ahtola, students), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 read	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 read	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 read	advmod
4	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Kalevala	Kalevala	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 read	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 knew	cc
7	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 read	conj
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 knew	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 gods	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gods	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gods	compound
12	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 nothing	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 old	case
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 gods	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 proceeded	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 proceeded	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 students	det
18	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 proceeded	nsubj
19	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 read	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 explain	mark
21	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 proceeded	xcomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 explain	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not read	past	Ahtola	Kalevala		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kalevala=Topic
2	know	past	Ahtola not said here	nothing		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	proceed	past	the students			vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive	the students not said here		Ahtola	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

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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