The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 12

The man, who was a peaceable quiet sort of fellow, made no objections, but simply said:

Who acts: man · What happens: be, make, say · To what, where: peaceable quiet sort, objections · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sort	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 sort	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sort	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sort	det
7	peaceable	peaceable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sort	amod
8	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sort	amod
9	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 man	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 fellow	case
11	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sort	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 man	punct
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 objections	det
15	objections	objection	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 made	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
18	simply	simply	ADV	_	19 said	advmod
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the man	a peaceable quiet sort	of fellow	tree rules
2	make	past	the man	no objections		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent objection=Product
3	say speech: assert	past	the man not said here		simply property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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