The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 98

He was cunning enough, however, to conceal his feelings and to make no direct answer, but he only asked the maiden, as if carelessly, what was remarkable about the ring?

Who acts: love · What happens: cunn, conceal, make, ask, be · To what, where: feelings, direct answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (love), 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	3 cunning	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cunning	aux
3	cunning	cunn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 cunning	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 conceal	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	9 conceal	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 conceal	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	9 conceal	mark
9	conceal	conceal	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 cunning	parataxis
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 feelings	nmod:poss
11	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 conceal	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 make	cc
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 conceal	conj
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 answer	det
16	direct	direct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 answer	amod
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 asked	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 asked	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 asked	nsubj
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 asked	advmod
22	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cunning	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 maiden	det
24	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 asked	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 carelessly	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 carelessly	mark
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 carelessly	mark
28	carelessly	carelessly	ADV	_	32 remarkable	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 carelessly	punct
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 remarkable	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 remarkable	cop
32	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 asked	ccomp
33	about	about	ADP	_	35 ring	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 ring	det
35	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 remarkable	obl
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 cunning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cunn	past · progressive	love		enough property	tree rules
2	conceal	to-infinitive		love's feelings	however property	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient
3	make	to-infinitive		no direct answer		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset answer=Product
4	ask speech: ask	past	love		maiden property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past			about the ring; carelessly, remarkable 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 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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