The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 32

However, they might have spared themselves the trouble, as he knew it was only idle talk.

Who acts: youth, family · What happens: spare, know, be · To what, where: mother, idle talk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, family), 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	However	however	ADV	_	6 spared	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 spared	nsubj:pass
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 spared	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 spared	aux
6	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 spared	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trouble	det
9	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spared	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knew	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 knew	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 knew	nsubj
13	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spared	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 talk	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 talk	cop
16	only	only	ADV	_	18 talk	advmod
17	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 talk	amod
18	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knew	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spare	might · perfect · passive		mother	however property	tree rules
2	know	past	youth			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	family	idle talk		tree rules

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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