The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 99

They grew so proud that they were ashamed to think that the founder of their race had once been a poor boy; and as they and all the world could not fail to remember it, as long as the table, the cornet, and the bag were shown in the treasure chamber, one king, more foolish than the rest, thrust them into a dark and damp cellar.

Who acts: grandsons, race · What happens: grow, be, think, have, not fail, remember · To what, where: poor boy, world, bag, grandsons, dark cellar

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 (grandsons, race), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 proud	advmod
4	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grew	xcomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 ashamed	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ashamed	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ashamed	cop
8	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 proud	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 think	mark
10	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ashamed	xcomp
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 founder	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 founder	det
13	founder	founder	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 think	ccomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 race	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 race	nmod:poss
16	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 founder	nmod
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 race	acl
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 boy	advmod
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 boy	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 boy	det
21	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 boy	amod
22	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 fail	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fail	cc
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 fail	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 fail	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 world	cc
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 world	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 world	det
30	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 they	conj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 fail	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 fail	advmod
33	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 grew	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 remember	mark
35	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 fail	xcomp
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 remember	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 long	punct
38	as	as	ADV	_	39 long	advmod
39	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 remember	advmod
40	as	as	ADP	_	42 table	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 table	det
42	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 long	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 cornet	punct
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 cornet	det
45	cornet	cornet	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 remember	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 shown	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 shown	cc
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 bag	det
49	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 shown	nsubj:pass
50	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 shown	aux:pass
51	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 grew	conj
52	in	in	ADP	_	55 chamber	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 chamber	det
54	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 chamber	compound
55	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 shown	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 king	punct
57	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	58 king	nummod
58	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 chamber	appos
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 foolish	punct
60	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	61 foolish	advmod
61	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 king	amod
62	than	than	ADP	_	64 rest	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 rest	det
64	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 foolish	obl
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 thrust	punct
66	thrust	thrust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 shown	conj
67	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 thrust	obj
68	into	into	ADP	_	73 cellar	case
69	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	73 cellar	det
70	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	73 cellar	amod
71	and	and	CCONJ	_	72 damp	cc
72	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 dark	conj
73	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 thrust	obl
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	grandsons = grandson			proud property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	grandsons = grandson			ashamed property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	grandsons = grandson not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	grandsons's race not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is a	participle		a poor boy		once property	tree rules
6	not fail	could	grandsons = grandson				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	remember	to-infinitive	grandsons = grandson not said here	world		the cornet obl; long property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	show	past · passive		the bag		in the treasure chamber	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in chamber=Topic
9	thrust	infinitive		grandsons = grandson	a dark cellar		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
10	race		grandsons = grandson				nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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