The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 52

But as he did not want the real story to be known, he said that about midnight a huge wasp had flown through the branches, and buzzed incessantly round him.

Who acts: question · What happens: not want, know, say, fly, buzz · To what, where: real story, midnight, branches · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (question), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 want	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 want	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 want	advmod
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 story	det
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 story	amod
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	12 known	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 known	aux:pass
12	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 story	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 flown	mark
17	about	about	ADV	_	18 midnight	advmod
18	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flown	nsubj:pass
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 wasp	det
20	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wasp	amod
21	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flown	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 flown	aux
23	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 said	ccomp
24	through	through	ADP	_	26 branches	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 branches	det
26	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 flown	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 buzzed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 buzzed	cc
29	buzzed	buzz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	conj
30	incessantly	incessantly	ADV	_	29 buzzed	advmod
31	round	round	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 buzzed	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	question	the real story			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot story=Theme
2	know	to-infinitive · passive	question not said here	the real story not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»
3	say speech: assert	past	question				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	fly	past · perfect · passive		midnight	the branches		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme through branch=Location
5	buzz	past	question not said here			round question; incessantly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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