The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 86

The captain, who was not in the least angry, seized the guitar and began to play; but, let him play as loud as he would, the dead woman never stirred.

Who acts: captain, dead woman · What happens: not be, seize, begin, play, let, not stir · To what, where: guitar, captain

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, dead woman), 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 captain	det
2	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seized	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 angry	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 angry	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 angry	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 angry	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 angry	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 angry	det
9	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 angry	advmod
10	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 captain	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 captain	punct
12	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 guitar	det
14	guitar	guitar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seized	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seized	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 play	mark
18	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 let	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 but	punct
22	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 seized	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 loud	advmod
26	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 play	xcomp
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 would	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 would	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 loud	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 stirred	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 woman	det
32	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 woman	amod
33	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stirred	nsubj
34	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 stirred	advmod
35	stirred	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seized	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the captain		angry property	tree rules
2	seize	past	the captain	the guitar		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guitar=Theme
3	begin	past	the captain not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	play	to-infinitive	the captain not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	let	infinitive	the captain not said here	captain		tree rules
6	play	infinitive	captain not said here		loud property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not stir	past	the dead woman			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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