The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 81

However, long experience had taught him to let her storm and say nothing, so he lit his pipe and waited till she was tired out.

Who acts: long experience, wife, man · What happens: teach, let, storm, say, light, wait · To what, where: long experience, man, wife, nothing, pipe · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long experience, wife, 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	However	however	ADV	_	6 taught	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 experience	amod
4	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taught	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 taught	aux
6	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 taught	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 let	mark
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 taught	xcomp
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	storm	storm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 say	cc
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 storm	conj
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 say	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lit	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 lit	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lit	nsubj
18	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 taught	parataxis
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 pipe	nmod:poss
20	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lit	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 waited	cc
22	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lit	conj
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 tired	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tired	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 tired	cop
26	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 waited	ccomp
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 tired	compound:prt
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 taught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		long experience	man	however property	tree rules
2	let	to-infinitive	long experience not said here	wife			tree rules
3	storm	infinitive	wife not said here				vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	wife not said here	nothing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
5	light	past	man	man's pipe			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Product
6	wait	past	man not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	wife			tired property	tree rules

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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