The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 69
This conduct puzzled his brothers greatly, and they put such constant questions to him, that at length he told them the secret of the table, and even gave a dinner to them, which far outdid any they had ever seen or heard of.
Who acts: conduct, brothers, length · What happens: puzzle, put, tell, give, outdo, see · To what, where: brothers, such constant questions, conduct, secret, dinner, any · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (conduct, brothers, length), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 conduct | det |
| 2 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 puzzled | nsubj |
| 3 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 puzzled | obj |
| 6 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 3 puzzled | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 put | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | nsubj |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 puzzled | conj |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 questions | amod |
| 12 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 questions | amod |
| 13 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 put | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 told | punct |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 length | det |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 length | case |
| 19 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 told | nsubj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 told | nsubj |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 puzzled | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 told | iobj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 secret | det |
| 24 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 told | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 table | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 table | det |
| 27 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 secret | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 gave | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 gave | cc |
| 30 | even | even | ADV | _ | 31 gave | advmod |
| 31 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 puzzled | parataxis |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 dinner | det |
| 33 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gave | obj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 them | case |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 gave | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 outdid | punct |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 outdid | nsubj |
| 38 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 outdid | advmod |
| 39 | outdid | outdo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 gave | conj |
| 40 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 outdid | obj |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 seen | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 seen | aux |
| 43 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 44 seen | advmod |
| 44 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 outdid | ccomp |
| 45 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 46 heard | cc |
| 46 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 seen | conj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 heard | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 puzzled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | puzzle | past | this conduct | conduct's brothers | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus brother=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | put | past | brothers = brother | such constant questions | conduct | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | that length | the secret of the table | brothers = brother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient secret=Topic | |||
| 4 | give | past | a dinner | brothers = brother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme to they=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | outdo | past | any | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | see | past · perfect | brothers = brother | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | hear | participle | brothers = brother not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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