The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 97

Many a weary mile did they tramp, but got nothing but hard words or laughter, or directions to the nearest cemetery, from people to whom they offered dead wives for sale.

Who acts: villagers · What happens: tramp, get, offer · To what, where: Many, nothing, dead wives

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 (villagers), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tramp	obj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mile	det
3	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mile	amod
4	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Many	obl:unmarked
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tramp	aux
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tramp	nsubj
7	tramp	tramp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 got	cc
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tramp	conj
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 got	obj
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 words	cc
13	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 words	amod
14	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 nothing	conj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 laughter	cc
16	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nothing	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 directions	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 directions	cc
19	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 got	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 cemetery	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cemetery	det
22	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 cemetery	amod
23	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 directions	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 people	punct
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 people	case
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 got	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 whom	case
28	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 people	nmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 offered	nsubj
30	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 whom	acl:relcl
31	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 wives	amod
32	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 offered	obj
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 sale	case
34	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 offered	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tramp	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tramp	past · do-support	villagers = villager	Many		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme many=Trajectory
2	get	past	villagers = villager not said here	nothing	from people; directions to the nearest cemetery obl	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme from people=Source
3	offer	past	villagers = villager	dead wives	for sale goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent wife=Theme for sale=Goal

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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