The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 10
As for Esben, no one had ever thought about him; his brothers had not even said farewell to him.
What happens: think, not say · To what, where: one, brothers, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 Esben | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 Esben | case |
| 3 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Esben | punct |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | aux |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 thought | advmod |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 said | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 said | advmod |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 said | advmod |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 thought | conj |
| 19 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 18 said | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · perfect · passive | no one | ever | as Esben; about man | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | not say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | man's brothers | man | farewell property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to he=Recipient |
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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