The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 2
The youngest of them was called Dullhead, and was sneered and jeered at and snubbed on every possible opportunity.
What happens: call, sneer, jeer, snub · To what, where: youngest, possible opportunity · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 youngest | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 youngest | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | aux:pass |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | Dullhead | Dullhead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 called | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sneered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sneered | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sneered | aux:pass |
| 11 | sneered | sneer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 called | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 jeered | cc |
| 13 | jeered | jeer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sneered | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 jeered | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 snubbed | cc |
| 16 | snubbed | snub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 jeered | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 opportunity | case |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 opportunity | det |
| 19 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 opportunity | amod |
| 20 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 snubbed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | the youngest of sons | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | sneer | past · passive | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V» | ||||||
| 3 | jeer | participle | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | snub | participle | every possible opportunity | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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