The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 39
Of course the neighbours said a great many ill-natured things about the wooden helmet, but the bridegroom was too happy to care, and only laughed at them.
Who acts: bridegroom · What happens: say, be, care, laugh · To what, where: great many natured things · 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 (bridegroom), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 neighbours | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 neighbours | det |
| 4 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | obl |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 things | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 9 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 natured | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ill | punct |
| 11 | natured | natured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | obj |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 helmet | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 helmet | det |
| 15 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 helmet | amod |
| 16 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 things | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 happy | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 happy | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bridegroom | det |
| 20 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 happy | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 happy | cop |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 happy | advmod |
| 23 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 care | mark |
| 25 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 happy | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 laughed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 laughed | cc |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 29 laughed | advmod |
| 29 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 laughed | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a great many natured things | of the neighbours; about the wooden helmet | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the bridegroom | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | care | to-infinitive | the bridegroom not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | laugh | past | at neighbours = neighbour | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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