The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 20

They worked hard all day, but in spite of the chopping they were very cold, for it rained heavily, and when they returned home, they were wet through.

Who acts: daughter, it · What happens: work, be, rain, return, spite · To what, where: spite, chopping

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, it), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 worked	nsubj
2	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 worked	advmod
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 worked	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cold	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 cold	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 spite	case
9	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cold	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 chopping	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chopping	det
12	chopping	chopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spite	nmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cold	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cold	cop
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 cold	advmod
16	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 worked	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rained	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 rained	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 rained	nsubj
20	rained	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 worked	parataxis
21	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	20 rained	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 wet	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 wet	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 returned	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 returned	nsubj
26	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 wet	advcl
27	home	home	ADV	_	26 returned	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 returned	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wet	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 wet	cop
31	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 worked	parataxis
32	through	through	ADV	_	31 wet	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 worked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	daughter			day	hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	daughter		spite of the chopping		cold property	tree rules
3	rain	past	it				heavily property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
4	return	past	daughter				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	daughter				through, wet property	tree rules
6	spite			the chopping				nom spite «feeling 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 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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