The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 131

He could not for very shame be outdone by his younger brother, and passed behind him into another splendid hall, which was filled from floor to ceiling with great pieces of copper money.

Who acts: younger brother · What happens: outdo, pass, fill · To what, where: Jack, splendid hall, floor

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 (younger 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 outdone	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 outdone	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 shame	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 shame	case
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 shame	advmod
6	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 outdone	nsubj:pass
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 outdone	aux:pass
8	outdone	outdo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 brother	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 brother	nmod:poss
11	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 brother	amod
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 outdone	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 passed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 passed	cc
15	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 outdone	conj
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 passed	obl
18	into	into	ADP	_	21 hall	case
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 hall	det
20	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hall	amod
21	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 passed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 filled	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 filled	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 filled	aux:pass
25	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 hall	acl:relcl
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 floor	case
27	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 filled	obl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 ceiling	case
29	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 filled	obl
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 pieces	case
31	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 pieces	amod
32	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 filled	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 money	case
34	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 money	compound
35	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pieces	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 outdone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	outdo	could · passive	Jack's younger brother	Jack			vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme
2	pass	participle	Jack's younger brother not said here		another splendid hall	behind Jack	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind he=Location
3	fill	past · passive		another splendid hall	floor	to ceiling; with great pieces of copper money	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with piece=Instrument

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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