The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 13

Now the boy had been rather uneasy when he recollected his father’s words, but he thought to himself, ‘What is done cannot be undone,’ and answered, ‘Very well, so let it be.’

Who acts: boy, corn, father · What happens: be, recollect, think, do, not undo, answer · To what, where: words, boy, corn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, corn, father), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 uneasy	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 uneasy	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 uneasy	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 uneasy	cop
6	rather	rather	ADV	_	7 uneasy	advmod
7	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 recollected	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 recollected	nsubj
10	recollected	recollect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 uneasy	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 words	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 father	case
14	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 recollected	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 thought	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thought	nsubj
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 uneasy	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 himself	case
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 thought	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 done	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 done	punct
23	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 done	nsubj:pass
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 done	aux:pass
25	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 undone	advcl
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 undone	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 undone	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 undone	aux:pass
29	undone	undo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 thought	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 undone	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 undone	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 answered	cc
33	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 undone	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 well	punct
35	‘	'	PUNCT	_	37 well	punct
36	Very	very	ADV	_	37 well	advmod
37	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 answered	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 let	punct
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 let	advmod
40	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 uneasy	parataxis
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 let	obj
42	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 let	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 uneasy	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 uneasy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	the boy			now	uneasy property	tree rules
2	recollect	past	boy	boy's father's words				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	boy		boy			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	do	present · passive						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
5	not undo	can · passive						vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»
6	answer speech: assert	past					well property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	let	infinitive		corn				tree rules
8	be	infinitive	corn not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	word		boy's father					nom word «communication 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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