Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 16

But the landlord didn't like his looks. "

Who acts: landlord · What happens: not like · To what, where: looks

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (landlord), 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	_	6 like	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 landlord	det
3	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 like	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 like	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 like	advmod
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 looks	nmod:poss
8	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 like	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	the landlord	landlord's looks					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot look=Theme

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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