The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 58

Now, at last, their luck seemed to have turned, for while the two eldest were given places in the king's stables, Pinkel was taken as page to the little prince.

Who acts: luck · What happens: seem, turn, give, take · To what, where: two, stables, Pinkel, little prince

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 (luck), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 seemed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 last	case
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Now	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 luck	nmod:poss
7	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seemed	nsubj
8	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	11 turned	mark
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 turned	aux
11	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 seemed	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 given	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 given	mark
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 given	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 two	det
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 given	nsubj:pass
17	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 two	nmod
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 given	aux:pass
19	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 turned	conj
20	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 given	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	25 stables	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 king	det
23	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stables	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 king	case
25	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 given	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 taken	punct
27	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 taken	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 taken	aux:pass
29	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 given	conj
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 page	case
31	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 taken	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 prince	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 prince	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 prince	amod
35	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 taken	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	ways's luck				now		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	turn	to-infinitive · perfect	ways's luck not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	give	past · passive		the two eldest		the king's stables			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient place=Theme
4	take	past · passive		Pinkel	the little prince			as page	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to prince=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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