The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 10

But for some reason they could hardly bear the sight of him, though he tried much harder to make them comfortable than his brothers had ever done.

Who acts: people, man · What happens: bear, try, make, do, sight · To what, where: sight, people, man

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 bear	cc
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 reason	case
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 reason	det
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bear	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bear	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 bear	aux
7	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	8 bear	advmod
8	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sight	det
10	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bear	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sight	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tried	punct
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 tried	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tried	nsubj
16	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bear	conj
17	much	much	ADV	_	18 harder	advmod
18	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 tried	xcomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 make	mark
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tried	xcomp
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 make	obj
22	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 make	xcomp
23	than	than	ADP	_	25 brothers	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 brothers	nmod:poss
25	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 done	obl
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 done	aux
27	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 done	advmod
28	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 comfortable	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bear	could	people	the sight of man		for some reason; hardly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus for reason=Attribute
2	try	past	man			hard property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	people		comfortable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
4	do	past · perfect	man not said here		ever	than man's brothers	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sight			man			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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