The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 31

But at the time this story begins they had both been so careless and idle that their masters declared they would keep them no longer.

Who acts: story, words, masters · What happens: begin, have, be, declare, keep · To what, where: masters

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: who acts (story, words, masters), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 begins	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 begins	obl
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 begins	nsubj
7	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 begins	ccomp
10	both	both	ADV	_	13 careless	advmod
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 careless	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 careless	advmod
13	careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 had	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 idle	cc
15	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 careless	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 declared	mark
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 masters	nmod:poss
18	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 declared	nsubj
19	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 idle	advcl
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 keep	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 keep	aux
22	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 declared	xcomp
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 keep	obj
24	no	no	ADV	_	25 longer	advmod
25	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 keep	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 begins	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	present	this story		time		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	have	past	words = word				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	participle	words = word not said here			both, careless property	tree rules
4	be		words = word not said here				tree rules
5	declare speech: other	past	words's masters				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	keep	would	words = word	masters = master		long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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