The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 51

Nothing that she thought of seemed good enough, so, when the message was brought that the ogre and his wares were below, she at once ordered that he should be brought to her chamber.

Who acts: princess, Nothing, ogre · What happens: think, seem, bring, be, order · To what, where: message, ogre, chamber

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, Nothing, ogre), 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	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 seemed	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 thought	obj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	acl:relcl
5	of	of	ADP	_	4 thought	obl
6	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seemed	xcomp
8	enough	enough	ADV	_	7 good	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 brought	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	16 brought	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 brought	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 brought	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 message	det
14	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brought	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 brought	aux:pass
16	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 seemed	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 below	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ogre	det
19	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 below	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 wares	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wares	nmod:poss
22	wares	ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ogre	conj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 below	cop
24	below	below	ADV	_	16 brought	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ordered	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ordered	nsubj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 once	case
28	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 ordered	obl
29	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seemed	parataxis
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 brought	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 brought	nsubj
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 brought	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 brought	aux:pass
34	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 ordered	ccomp
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 chamber	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 chamber	nmod:poss
37	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 brought	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	princess				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme
2	seem	past	Nothing			good property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	bring	past · passive		the message			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
4	is	past	the ogre and ogre's wares			below property	tree rules
5	order	past	princess				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	bring	should · passive		ogre	princess's chamber		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to chamber=Destination

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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