The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 30

The two eldest were grown up, and though they were known to be idle fellows, some of the neighbours had given them work to do on account of the respect in which their mother was held.

What happens: grow up, know, be, give, work, do · To what, where: two, words, idle fellows, some, account, mother

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 two	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 grown	nsubj
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 grown	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grown	aux:pass
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 grown	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 known	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 known	cc
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 known	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 known	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 known	aux:pass
12	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 grown	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	16 fellows	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 fellows	cop
15	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fellows	amod
16	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 known	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 given	punct
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 given	nsubj:pass
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 neighbours	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 neighbours	det
21	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 some	nmod
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 given	aux
23	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 fellows	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 given	obj
25	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 given	xcomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 do	mark
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 work	ccomp
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 account	case
29	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 do	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 respect	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 respect	det
32	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 account	nmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 which	case
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 held	obl
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 mother	nmod:poss
36	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 held	nsubj:pass
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 held	aux:pass
38	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 respect	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	grow up	past · passive	the two		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	know	past · passive	words = word		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
3	is a	to-infinitive	idle fellows		tree rules
4	give	past · perfect · passive	some		tree rules
5	work	infinitive			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	do	to-infinitive		account of the respect	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	hold	past · passive	words's mother	the respect	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in which=Location
8	account		the respect		nom account «communication 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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