The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 97

It may easily be guessed that all this made the brothers more envious than they were before; and they cast about in their minds afresh how best they might destroy him.

Who acts: this, brothers · What happens: guess, make, be, cast about, destroy, mind · To what, where: seat, brothers, minds, Pinkel

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 (this, brothers), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 guessed	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 guessed	aux
3	easily	easily	ADV	_	5 guessed	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 guessed	aux:pass
5	guessed	guess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 made	mark
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 made	det:predet
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 guessed	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 brothers	det
11	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 made	obj
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 envious	advmod
13	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 made	xcomp
14	than	than	SCONJ	_	17 before	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 before	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 before	cop
17	before	before	ADV	_	13 envious	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 cast	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cast	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cast	nsubj
21	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 best	advcl
22	about	about	ADV	_	21 cast	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 minds	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 minds	nmod:poss
25	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 cast	obl
26	afresh	afresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 best	amod
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 best	advmod
28	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 guessed	parataxis
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 destroy	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 destroy	aux
31	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 best	acl:relcl
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 destroy	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 guessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	guess	may · passive		seat		easily property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	make	past	this	the brothers		envious property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset brother=Product
3	is	past	brothers = brother			before property	tree rules
4	cast about	present	brothers = brother		brothers's minds	about property	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in mind=Destination
5	destroy	might	brothers = brother	Pinkel			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	mind		brothers = brother				nom mind «cognition 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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