The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 186

And again his father offered him what he would, even the crown itself, but the boy would hear nothing, and went on his way.

Who acts: father, boy · What happens: offer, hear, go · To what, where: crown, cat, nothing, way

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, boy), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 offered	cc
2	again	again	ADV	_	5 offered	advmod
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 father	nmod:poss
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 offered	nsubj
5	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 offered	iobj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 offered	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 would	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 crown	punct
11	even	even	ADV	_	13 crown	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 crown	det
13	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 offered	obl
14	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	13 crown	nmod:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hear	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 hear	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boy	det
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hear	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 hear	aux
20	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 offered	advcl
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 hear	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 offered	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 way	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 way	nmod:poss
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	offer	past	cat's father	the crown crown	cat		again	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal what=Theme
2	hear	would	the boy	nothing				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	go	past	cat's father not said here			cat's way		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location

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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