The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 136
As, however, he did not claim any wages, the minister made no objections, but allowed him to do as he wished.
Who acts: hole, minister · What happens: not claim, make, allow, do, wish · To what, where: wages, objections, hole
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hole, minister), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 8 claim | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 As | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 claim | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 claim | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 claim | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 claim | advmod |
| 8 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 wages | det |
| 10 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 claim | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 minister | det |
| 13 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wages | acl:relcl |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 objections | det |
| 16 | objections | objection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 allowed | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 allowed | cc |
| 19 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 allowed | iobj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 allowed | xcomp |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 wished | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 wished | nsubj |
| 25 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 claim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not claim speech: other | past · do-support | hole | any wages | however property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wage=Topic | |||
| 2 | make | past | the minister | no objections | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset objection=Product | ||||
| 3 | allow | past | the minister not said here | hole | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the minister not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | wish | past | hole | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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