The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 55

But Simon answered, ‘The foolish brute is as deaf as a post and is always barking at nothing,’ and he refused to get up.

Who acts: Simon, foolish brute · What happens: answer, be, bark, refuse, not get up · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simon, foolish brute), 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	_	3 answered	cc
2	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 deaf	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 deaf	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 brute	det
7	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brute	amod
8	brute	brute	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 deaf	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 deaf	cop
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 deaf	advmod
11	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 answered	ccomp
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 post	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 post	det
14	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 deaf	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 barking	cc
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 barking	aux
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 barking	advmod
18	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 deaf	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 nothing	case
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 barking	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 nothing	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 deaf	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 refused	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 refused	nsubj
25	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 get	mark
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 refused	xcomp
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 get	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Simon		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the foolish brute	as a post; deaf property	tree rules
3	bark	present · progressive	the foolish brute not said here	at nothing; always property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at nothing=Stimulus
4	refuse	past	Simon		vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not get up	to-infinitive	Simon not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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