The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 33

The brothers answered him that they had never said a word about such a coverlet, did not believe it existed, and that it was quite impossible for them to procure it.

Who acts: brothers, word · What happens: answer, not say, not believe, exist, be, procure · To what, where: coverlet, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, word), 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 brothers	det
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answered	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 said	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 said	advmod
9	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 answered	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 word	det
11	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	about	about	ADP	_	15 coverlet	case
13	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 coverlet	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 coverlet	det
15	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 word	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 believe	punct
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 believe	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 believe	advmod
19	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 existed	nsubj
21	existed	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 believe	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 impossible	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 impossible	cc
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 impossible	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 impossible	expl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 impossible	cop
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 impossible	advmod
28	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 answered	conj
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 procure	mark
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 procure	nsubj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 procure	mark
32	procure	procure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 impossible	csubj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 procure	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the brothers		coverlet		tree rules
2	not say speech: assert	past · perfect	brothers = brother	a word		about such coverlet	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	not believe	past · do-support					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	exist	past	word				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	the brothers not said here			impossible property	tree rules
6	procure	to-infinitive	brothers = brother	word			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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