The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 72

Hans did not answer, but rode on steadily, though every now and then he cast a glance over his shoulder.

Who acts: Hans, minister · What happens: not answer, ride on, cast · To what, where: glance, shoulder · 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 (Hans, 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	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 answer	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answer	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 answer	advmod
4	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rode	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 rode	cc
7	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answer	ccomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 rode	compound:prt
9	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	7 rode	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cast	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 cast	mark
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 now	det
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 cast	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cast	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 cast	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cast	nsubj
17	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answer	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 glance	det
19	glance	glance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cast	obj
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 shoulder	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 shoulder	nmod:poss
22	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cast	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not answer speech: assert	past · do-support	Hans					tree rules
2	ride on	past					steadily property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	cast	past	minister	a glance	minister's shoulder	now; then		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent glance=Theme over shoulder=Destination

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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