The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 173

But the dead woman did not answer a word, and sat still.

Who acts: dead woman · What happens: not answer, sit · To what, where: word

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dead woman), 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	_	7 answer	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answer	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 answer	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 answer	advmod
7	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 word	det
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answer	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sat	cc
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 answer	parataxis
13	still	still	ADV	_	12 sat	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not answer speech: assert	past · do-support	the dead woman	a word					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality
2	sit	past					still		vn assuming_position-50 «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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