The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 101
Not one of them, however, ever thought of thanking Esben for what he had done for them.
Who acts: Sir · What happens: think, thank, do · To what, where: Esben
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: who acts (Sir), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 one | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 thought | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 thought | advmod |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 one | parataxis |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 thanking | mark |
| 11 | thanking | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 thought | advcl |
| 12 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 thanking | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 what | case |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 thanking | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 done | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 done | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | participle | ever | however property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | gerund | Esben | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent esben=Theme for what=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | Sir | for Esben | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 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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