The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 30

But all this had no effect upon the old woman, who only noticed all the uproar he was making by saying gently:

Who acts: this, old woman, uproar · What happens: have, notice, make, say · To what, where: effect · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (this, old woman, uproar), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 had	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 had	det:predet
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 effect	det
6	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 woman	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 noticed	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 noticed	nsubj
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 noticed	advmod
14	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 woman	conj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 uproar	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 uproar	det
17	uproar	uproar	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 making	nsubj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 making	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 making	aux
20	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 noticed	ccomp
21	by	by	SCONJ	_	22 saying	mark
22	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 making	advcl
23	gently	gently	ADV	_	22 saying	advmod
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	this	no effect	upon the old woman	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient
2	notice	past	the old woman			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	make	past · progressive	all uproar			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	say speech: assert	gerund	all uproar not said here		gently property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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