The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 7
He could not, however, forget all about it, and a few days after he inquired again the reason of her sadness, but only got the same reply.
Who acts: man · What happens: not forget, inquire, get · To what, where: reason, same reply
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. 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.
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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 | 7 forget | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 forget | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 forget | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 not | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 forget | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 it | advmod |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 forget | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 inquired | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 inquired | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 days | det |
| 14 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 days | amod |
| 15 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 after | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 18 inquired | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 inquired | nsubj |
| 18 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 forget | parataxis |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 inquired | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 reason | det |
| 21 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 inquired | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sadness | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sadness | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reason | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 got | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 got | cc |
| 27 | only | only | ADV | _ | 28 got | advmod |
| 28 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 inquired | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 reply | det |
| 30 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 reply | amod |
| 31 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 got | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 forget | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | could | man | about reason; however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | man | the reason of wife's sadness | again | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reason=Recipient | |||
| 3 | get | past | man not said here | the same reply | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reply=Stimulus |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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