The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 109

Drakestail, who was no longer surprised at anything, received the acclamations of the people as if he had never done anything else all his life.

Who acts: Drakestail · What happens: be, receive, not do, acclaim · To what, where: anything, acclamations, people

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drakestail), 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	Drakestail	Drakestail	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 received	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 surprised	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 surprised	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 surprised	cop
5	no	no	ADV	_	6 longer	advmod
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 surprised	advmod
7	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Drakestail	amod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 anything	case
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 surprised	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Drakestail	punct
11	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 acclamations	det
13	acclamations	acclamation	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 received	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 people	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 people	det
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 acclamations	nmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 done	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 done	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 done	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 done	aux
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 done	advmod
22	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 received	advcl
23	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 done	obj
24	else	else	ADV	_	23 anything	advmod
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 life	det:predet
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 life	nmod:poss
27	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 done	obl:unmarked
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Drakestail		anything	long, surprised property	tree rules
2	receive	past	Drakestail	the acclamations of the people			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acclamation=Theme
3	not do	past · perfect	Drakestail	anything		Drakestail's life obl:unmarked	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
4	acclaim			the people			nom acclamation «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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