The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 35

To his father and brothers, however, he gave no account of his attempt, except that it had been a failure.

Who acts: thing, account · What happens: give, be, account, attempt · To what, where: account, father, attempt

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, account), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 father	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 brothers	cc
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 father	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 father	punct
7	however	however	ADV	_	10 gave	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 however	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 account	det
12	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 attempt	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 attempt	nmod:poss
15	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 account	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 failure	punct
17	except	except	ADP	_	23 failure	case
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 failure	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 failure	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 failure	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 failure	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 failure	det
23	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	thing	no account of thing's attempt	thing's father and brothers	however property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent account=Theme to father=Recipient
2	is	past · perfect	account			except a failure	tree rules
3	account			thing's attempt			nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient
4	attempt		thing				nom attempt «act transitive»: poss=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 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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