The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 64
The minister thought he was joking, and made no further remark.
Who acts: minister · What happens: think, joke, make · To what, where: further remark · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 minister | det |
| 2 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 joking | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 joking | aux |
| 6 | joking | joke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 remark | det |
| 11 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 remark | amod |
| 12 | remark | remark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the minister | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | joke speech: other | past · progressive | minister | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | past | no further remark | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset remark=Product |
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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