The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 90

Now it very soon appeared that the goldsmith had a lot of extra money, so that people began to ask questions, and finally demanded of him the reason for his sudden wealth.

Who acts: it, goldsmith, people · What happens: appear, have, begin, ask, demand · To what, where: lot, questions, reason

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 (it, goldsmith, people), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 appeared	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 appeared	nsubj
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 soon	advmod
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 appeared	advmod
5	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 goldsmith	det
8	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 appeared	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lot	det
11	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 money	case
13	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 money	amod
14	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lot	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
16	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	19 began	mark
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 so	fixed
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 began	nsubj
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 appeared	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 ask	mark
21	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
22	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 ask	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 demanded	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 demanded	cc
25	finally	finally	ADV	_	26 demanded	advmod
26	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 appeared	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 demanded	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 reason	det
30	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 demanded	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	34 wealth	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 wealth	nmod:poss
33	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 wealth	amod
34	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 reason	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	it		now	soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	the goldsmith	a lot of extra money			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient
3	begin	past	people				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	people not said here	questions			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
5	demand speech: request	past		the reason		of Goldsmith; for Goldsmith's sudden wealth; finally property	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme reason=Precondition

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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