The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 70

Hans tried to deny the truth of these words, but he could not do it, and sat silent, hardly listening to what his friend was saying.

Who acts: Hans, part, friend · What happens: try, deny, not do, sit, listen, say · To what, where: truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, part, friend), 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	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 deny	mark
4	deny	deny	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 truth	det
6	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deny	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 words	case
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 words	det
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 truth	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 do	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 do	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 do	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 do	advmod
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 deny	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sat	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sat	cc
19	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	conj
20	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sat	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 listening	punct
22	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	23 listening	advmod
23	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 sat	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 what	case
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 listening	obl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 friend	nmod:poss
27	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 saying	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 saying	aux
29	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 what	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	Hans			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	deny not said to happen	to-infinitive	Hans not said here	the truth of this words		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent truth=Eventuality
3	not do	could	part	truth		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	sit	past	Hans not said here		silent property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	listen	gerund	Hans not said here		hardly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past · progressive	part's friend			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 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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