The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 29
As may be supposed, the brothers were more furious than ever, and grew quite thin with rage.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: suppose, be, grow
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 supposed | mark |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 supposed | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 supposed | aux:pass |
| 4 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 furious | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 brothers | det |
| 7 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 furious | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 furious | cop |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 furious | advmod |
| 10 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 supposed | conj |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 ever | case |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 furious | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 grew | cc |
| 15 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 supposed | conj |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 thin | advmod |
| 17 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grew | xcomp |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 rage | case |
| 19 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thin | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 supposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | may · passive | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S» | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | the brothers | furious property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | thin property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: 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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