The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 22

Then his great boarhound bounded up to him, but his caresses were only answered by a violent push.

Who acts: great boarhound, violent push, nurse · What happens: bound up, answer, caress · To what, where: nurse, caresses

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great boarhound, violent push, nurse), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 bounded	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 boarhound	nmod:poss
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boarhound	amod
4	boarhound	boarhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bounded	nsubj
5	bounded	bound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 bounded	compound:prt
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bounded	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 answered	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 caresses	nmod:poss
12	caresses	caress	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 answered	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 answered	aux:pass
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 answered	advmod
15	answered	answer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bounded	parataxis
16	by	by	ADP	_	19 push	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 push	det
18	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 push	amod
19	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 answered	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	bound up	participle	nurse's great boarhound		nurse	then	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to he=Destination
2	answer speech: assert	past · passive	a violent push	nurse's caresses			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality
3	caress		nurse				nom caress «act transitive»: poss=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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