The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 46

But his wife wouldn’t listen to his arguments, and did nothing but scold and reproach him.

Who acts: wife, heart · What happens: not listen, do, reproach, argue · To what, where: nothing, heart

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, heart), 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 listen	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 listen	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 listen	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 listen	advmod
6	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 arguments	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arguments	nmod:poss
9	arguments	argument	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 listen	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 did	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 did	cc
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 listen	advcl
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 did	obj
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 scold	cc
15	scold	scold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nothing	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 reproach	cc
17	reproach	reproach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 listen	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 reproach	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not listen	would	heart's wife		to heart's arguments	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to argument=Theme
2	do	past	heart's wife not said here	nothing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
3	reproach	infinitive	heart's wife not said here	heart		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	argue		heart			nom argument «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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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