The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 66

The boy, who was not used to be roughly handled, even in jest, cried out that he was sorely hurt, and went home with his foster brothers and told his tale to his mother.

Who acts: boy, Manus · What happens: not use, handle, cry out, hurt, go, tell · To what, where: boy, Manus, tale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, Manus), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 used	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 used	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 used	aux:pass
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 used	advmod
7	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 boy	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	11 handled	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 handled	aux:pass
10	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	11 handled	advmod
11	handled	handle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 used	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 jest	punct
13	even	even	ADV	_	15 jest	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 jest	case
15	jest	jest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 handled	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 boy	punct
17	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 cried	compound:prt
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 hurt	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hurt	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 hurt	aux:pass
22	sorely	sorely	ADV	_	23 hurt	advmod
23	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 cried	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 went	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 went	cc
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cried	parataxis
27	home	home	ADV	_	26 went	advmod
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 brothers	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 brothers	nmod:poss
30	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 brothers	compound
31	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 went	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 told	cc
33	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 went	conj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 tale	nmod:poss
35	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 told	iobj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 mother	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 mother	nmod:poss
38	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 told	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not use	past · passive		the boy			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	handle	to-infinitive · passive				roughly property	vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»
3	cry out speech: express	past	the boy				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hurt	past · passive		Manus		sorely property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	go	past				with Manus's foster brothers; home property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with brother=Beneficiary
6	tell speech: assert	past			Manus's tale	to Manus's mother	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Topic to mother=Recipient
7	tell		Manus				nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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