The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 61

At length the envy of his brothers became so great that they could bear it no longer, and consulted together how best they might ruin his credit with the king.

Who acts: envy, brothers, best · What happens: become, bear, consult, ruin, envy, credit · To what, where: length, credit, brothers

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 (envy, brothers, best), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 became	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 envy	det
4	envy	envy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 became	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 brothers	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brothers	nmod:poss
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 envy	nmod
8	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 great	advmod
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 became	xcomp
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 bear	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bear	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 bear	aux
14	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 great	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bear	obj
16	no	no	ADV	_	17 longer	advmod
17	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 bear	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 consulted	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 consulted	cc
20	consulted	consult	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 became	conj
21	together	together	ADV	_	20 consulted	advmod
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 ruin	advmod
23	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 ruin	nsubj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 ruin	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 ruin	aux
26	ruin	ruin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 consulted	advcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 credit	nmod:poss
28	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ruin	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 king	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 king	det
31	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ruin	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	the envy of envy's brothers		length	great property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	bear	could	brothers = brother	length		long property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	consult	participle	the envy of envy's brothers not said here			together property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ruin	might	best	envy's credit		with the king	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent credit=Patient with king=Instrument
5	envy			envy's brothers			nom envy «feeling transitive»: of=patient
6	credit		envy				nom credit «communication 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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