The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 88

With many protestations and reproaches they wrangled together, the stranger entreating the goldsmith to say nothing and he would pay him handsomely to atone for the sad accident.

Who acts: reproaches, stranger, Goldsmith · What happens: wrangle, entreat, say, pay, atone · To what, where: reproaches, goldsmith, nothing, stranger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reproaches, stranger, Goldsmith), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 protestations	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 protestations	amod
3	protestations	protestation	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 reproaches	cc
5	reproaches	reproach	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 protestations	conj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wrangled	nsubj
7	wrangled	wrangle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reproaches	acl:relcl
8	together	together	ADV	_	7 wrangled	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stranger	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stranger	det
11	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 protestations	conj
12	entreating	entreat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 stranger	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 goldsmith	det
14	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 entreating	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 entreating	advcl
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 say	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 pay	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pay	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 pay	aux
21	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 protestations	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pay	obj
23	handsomely	handsomely	ADV	_	25 atone	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 atone	mark
25	atone	atone	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 pay	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 accident	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 accident	det
28	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 accident	amod
29	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 atone	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 protestations	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wrangle	past	reproaches = reproach	reproaches not said here		together property	tree rules
2	entreat	gerund	the stranger not said here		the goldsmith		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goldsmith=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the stranger not said here	nothing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
4	pay	would	Goldsmith	stranger			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset
5	atone	to-infinitive	Goldsmith not said here			for the sad accident; handsomely property	tree rules

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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