The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 65
But he would not answer any questions, and pretended to be deaf and dumb.
Who acts: boatman · What happens: not answer, pretend, be · To what, where: questions
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boatman), 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 | _ | 5 answer | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 answer | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 answer | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 answer | advmod |
| 5 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 questions | det |
| 7 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 answer | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pretended | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pretended | cc |
| 10 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 answer | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 deaf | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 deaf | cop |
| 13 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pretended | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dumb | cc |
| 15 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 deaf | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not answer speech: assert | would | boatman | any questions | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | pretend | past | boatman not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | boatman not said here | deaf property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | boatman not said here | tree rules |
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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