The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 58

He listened in silence for the most part, but now and then he would say, ‘Yes, yes, you must have been badly treated,’ just for politeness’ sake; what more could he do?

Who acts: Petru · What happens: listen, say, treat, do · To what, where: silence, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petru), 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	2 listened	nsubj
2	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 silence	case
4	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 listened	obl
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 part	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 part	det
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 part	amod
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 listened	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 say	cc
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 say	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 say	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 say	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 say	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 say	aux
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 listened	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 treated	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 treated	punct
19	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	28 treated	discourse
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Yes	punct
21	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	28 treated	discourse
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 treated	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 treated	nsubj:pass
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 treated	aux
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 treated	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 treated	aux:pass
27	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 treated	advmod
28	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 say	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 treated	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 treated	punct
31	just	just	ADV	_	33 politeness	advmod
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 politeness	case
33	politeness	politeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 treated	obl
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	33 politeness	punct
35	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 politeness	conj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 do	punct
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	41 do	obj
38	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 what	amod
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 do	aux
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 do	nsubj
41	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 listened	conj
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past	Petru		silence		for the most part	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in silence=Location for part=Theme
2	say speech: assert	would	Petru			now; then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	treat	must · perfect · passive		you			for politeness and sake; badly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	do	could	Petru					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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 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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