The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 59

He was a clever and amusing boy, who saw everything that passed under his eyes, and the king noticed this, and often employed him in his own service, which made his brothers very jealous.

Who acts: Pinkel, clever boy, king, own service · What happens: be, see, pass, notice, employ, make · To what, where: clever boy, everything, eyes, this, Pinkel, own service

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 (Pinkel, clever boy, king, own service), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 boy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 boy	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 amusing	cc
6	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clever	conj
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 boy	acl:relcl
11	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 saw	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 passed	nsubj
13	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 everything	acl:relcl
14	under	under	ADP	_	16 eyes	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 eyes	nmod:poss
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 passed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 noticed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 noticed	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 king	det
20	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 noticed	nsubj
21	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saw	conj
22	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 noticed	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 employed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 employed	cc
25	often	often	ADV	_	26 employed	advmod
26	employed	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saw	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 employed	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 service	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 service	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 service	amod
31	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 employed	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 made	punct
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 made	nsubj
34	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 service	acl:relcl
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 brothers	nmod:poss
36	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 made	obj
37	very	very	ADV	_	38 jealous	advmod
38	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 made	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Pinkel	a clever boy			tree rules
2	see	past	a clever boy	everything			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
3	pass	past			Pinkel's eyes		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under eye=Location
4	notice	past	the king	this			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
5	employ	past	a clever boy not said here	Pinkel	Pinkel's own service	often property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	make	past	Pinkel's own service	Pinkel's brothers		jealous property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset brother=Product
7	service		Pinkel				nom service «act transitive»: 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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