English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 50
But they wouldn't listen to him, and abused him shamefully, and he got away as quick as he could.
Who acts: people, gentleman · What happens: not listen, abuse, get away · To what, where: gentleman
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, gentleman), 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 | _ | 5 listen | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 listen | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 listen | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 listen | advmod |
| 5 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 listen | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 abused | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 abused | cc |
| 10 | abused | abuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 listen | parataxis |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 abused | obj |
| 12 | shamefully | shamefully | ADV | _ | 10 abused | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 got | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 got | nsubj |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 abused | conj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 got | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 quick | advmod |
| 19 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 got | xcomp |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 could | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 could | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 quick | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not listen | would | people | gentleman | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | abuse | past | gentleman | shamefully property | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get away | past | gentleman | away, quick property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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