The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 119

At this, Martin regretted deeply that he had been so foolish as to refuse, for his bits of bread and cheese seemed very hard when he smelt the savoury soup his brother was enjoying.

Who acts: Martin, bits, brother · What happens: regret, be, refuse, seem, smelt, enjoy · To what, where: this, savoury soup

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martin, bits, brother), 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 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 regretted	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 this	punct
4	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 regretted	nsubj
5	regretted	regret	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	5 regretted	advmod
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 foolish	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 foolish	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 foolish	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 foolish	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 foolish	advmod
12	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 regretted	advcl
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 refuse	mark
14	to	to	PART	_	15 refuse	mark
15	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 foolish	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bits	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 bits	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 bits	nmod:poss
19	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 seemed	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 bread	case
21	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bits	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cheese	cc
23	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bread	conj
24	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 refuse	ccomp
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 hard	advmod
26	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 seemed	advmod
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 smelt	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 smelt	nsubj
29	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 seemed	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 soup	det
31	savoury	savoury	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 soup	amod
32	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 smelt	obj
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 brother	nmod:poss
34	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 enjoying	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 enjoying	aux
36	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 soup	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 regretted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	regret	past	Martin		this	deeply property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past · perfect	Martin			foolish property	tree rules
3	refuse	to-infinitive	Martin not said here				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	seem	past	Martin's bits of bread and cheese			hard property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	smelt	past	Martin	the savoury soup			tree rules
6	enjoy	past · progressive	Martin's brother	the savoury soup not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soup=Stimulus

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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