Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 133

The young man pretended not to notice his reply, and remained almost silent till they reached the city, a short distance outside which was the old farmer's house.

Who acts: young man, horses, Man · What happens: pretend, not notice, remain, reach, be, reply · To what, where: reply, city, house

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, horses, Man), 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	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pretended	nsubj
4	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 notice	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 notice	mark
7	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pretended	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 reply	nmod:poss
9	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 notice	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 remained	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 remained	cc
12	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pretended	conj
13	almost	almost	ADV	_	14 silent	advmod
14	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 remained	xcomp
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 reached	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 reached	nsubj
17	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 remained	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 city	det
19	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reached	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 distance	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 distance	det
22	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 distance	amod
23	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 city	appos
24	outside	outside	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 house	obl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 house	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 farmer	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 farmer	amod
29	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 house	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 farmer	case
31	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 distance	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pretended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	the young man			tree rules
2	not notice	to-infinitive	the young man not said here	Man's reply		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer reply=Stimulus
3	remain	past	the young man not said here		silent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	reach	past	horses = horse	the city		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent city=Theme
5	is a	past		the old farmer's house	outside a short distance	tree rules
6	reply		Man			nom reply «communication 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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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