The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 185

He did not say anything, and he did not complain, and those are bad signs.

Who acts: man · What happens: not say, not complain, be · To what, where: anything, bad signs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 say	advmod
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 say	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 complain	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 complain	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 complain	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 complain	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 complain	advmod
11	complain	complain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 signs	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 signs	cc
14	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 signs	det
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 signs	cop
16	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 signs	amod
17	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 complain	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	man	anything	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
2	not complain speech: other	past · do-support	man		vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	man not said here	that bad signs	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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