The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 13

The sword clanked loudly as the boy was led away, but the child said nothing, though he was very unhappy at being treated so badly when he had done nothing.

Who acts: sword, child, boy · What happens: clank, lead away, say, be, treat, do · To what, where: boy, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword, child, boy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sword	det
2	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clanked	nsubj
3	clanked	clank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	3 clanked	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 led	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 led	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 led	aux:pass
9	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 clanked	advcl
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 led	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 child	det
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 clanked	parataxis
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 said	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 unhappy	punct
18	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 unhappy	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 unhappy	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 unhappy	cop
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 unhappy	advmod
22	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	conj
23	at	at	SCONJ	_	25 treated	mark
24	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 treated	aux:pass
25	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 unhappy	advcl
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 badly	advmod
27	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 treated	advmod
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 done	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 done	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 done	aux
31	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 treated	advcl
32	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	31 done	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 clanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	clank	past	the sword		loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lead away	past · passive		the boy	away property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the child	nothing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
4	is	past	boy		unhappy property	tree rules
5	treat	gerund · passive	boy not said here		badly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»
6	do	past · perfect	boy	nothing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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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