The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 40

Otto felt rather ashamed: he quite understood what it meant, but he thought that the old man’s revenge was a noble one.

Who acts: Otto, basket, revenge, old man · What happens: feel, understand, mean, think, be, revenge · To what, where: noble one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Otto, basket, revenge, old 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	Otto	Otto	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	4 ashamed	advmod
4	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 understood	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 understood	nsubj
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 understood	advmod
8	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 meant	obj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 meant	nsubj
11	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 understood	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 thought	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thought	nsubj
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 one	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 revenge	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 man	case
21	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 one	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 one	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 one	det
24	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 one	amod
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thought	ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Otto		ashamed property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	understand	past	Otto			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	mean	past	basket			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	think speech: other	past	Otto			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	the old man's revenge	a noble one		tree rules
6	revenge		the old man			nom revenge «act 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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