The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 144
But Martin looked at his royal father-in-law, and answered never a word.
Who acts: Martin · What happens: look, answer · To what, where: word
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martin), 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 | _ | 3 looked | cc |
| 2 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 father | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 father | amod |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 law | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 law | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 in | punct |
| 11 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 father | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 answered | cc |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 word | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 word | det |
| 17 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Martin | at Martin's royal father in law | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at father=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Martin not said here | a word | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality |
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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