The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 5

That did not matter at all, the man said; they would not care so very much what it cost.

Who acts: That, man, books, clerk · What happens: not matter, say, not care, cost · To what, where: all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, man, books, clerk), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 matter	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 matter	advmod
4	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 matter	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 all	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 care	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 care	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 care	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 care	advmod
15	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 matter	conj
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADV	_	15 care	advmod
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 cost	obj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cost	nsubj
21	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 much	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 matter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not matter	past · do-support	That	all	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not care	would	books = book		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	cost	past	clerk		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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