The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 38
But though Houarn held his peace, he was not as happy as before.
Who acts: Houarn · What happens: hold, not be, pacify · To what, where: peace
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Houarn), 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 | _ | 12 happy | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 4 held | mark |
| 3 | Houarn | Houarn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 held | nsubj |
| 4 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 happy | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 peace | nmod:poss |
| 6 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 held | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 happy | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 happy | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 happy | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 happy | advmod |
| 12 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 before | case |
| 14 | before | before | ADV | _ | 12 happy | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | Houarn | Houarn's peace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | Houarn | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pacify | Houarn | nom peace «state 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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