The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 38
But his heart was no softer than his brother’s, and every man that was not a skilled workman was chased away with hard words.
Who acts: heart, man · What happens: not be, chase away · To what, where: skilled workman, man
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, man), 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 | _ | 6 softer | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 softer | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 softer | cop |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 softer | advmod |
| 6 | softer | soft | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 brother | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 softer | obl |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 brother | case |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 chased | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 chased | cc |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 chased | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 workman | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 workman | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 workman | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 workman | det |
| 19 | skilled | skilled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 workman | amod |
| 20 | workman | workman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 man | acl:relcl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 chased | aux:pass |
| 22 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 softer | advcl |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 chased | advmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 words | case |
| 25 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 words | amod |
| 26 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 chased | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 softer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | brother's heart | than brother's brother; soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | every man | a skilled workman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | chase away | past · passive | every man | with hard words; away property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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