The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 137

When they would hold no more, Martin said:

Who acts: provisions, Martin · What happens: hold, say · To what, where: more · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (provisions, Martin), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 hold	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hold	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hold	aux
4	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	no	no	ADV	_	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 hold	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hold	punct
8	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	would	provisions = provision	more					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Martin						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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