The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 39

Nobody seemed to want them, or, if they did, the young men declared that they were not able to undertake all that the farmers or millers or woodcutters required of them.

Who acts: Nobody, eyes, young men · What happens: seem, want, do, declare, not be, undertake · To what, where: eyes, farmers

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 (Nobody, eyes, young men), 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 want	mark
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seemed	xcomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 declared	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 declared	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 or	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 did	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 did	nsubj
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 declared	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 did	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 men	det
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 men	amod
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 declared	nsubj
16	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 able	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 able	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 able	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 able	advmod
21	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 declared	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 undertake	mark
23	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 able	xcomp
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 farmers	det:predet
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 farmers	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 farmers	det
27	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 undertake	obj
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 millers	cc
29	millers	miller	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 farmers	conj
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 woodcutters	cc
31	woodcutters	woodcutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 farmers	conj
32	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 farmers	acl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 required	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	Nobody			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	want	to-infinitive	Nobody not said here	eyes = eye		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
3	do a condition, not said to happen	past	eyes = eye			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	declare speech: other	past	the young men			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	not is	past	eyes = eye		able property	tree rules
6	undertake	to-infinitive	eyes = eye not said here	all farmers or millers or woodcutters		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Eventuality
7	require	participle		all farmers or millers or woodcutters not said here	of eyes = eye	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=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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