The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 69

The fairies also did their best to soften the wrath of their sister, and knowing that, like many plain people who are not fairies, she was very vain, they entreated her to drop her crab's disguise, and to become once more the charming person they were accustomed to see.

Who acts: fairies, many plain people, queen · What happens: do, soften, know, not be, be, entreat · To what, where: best, wrath, fairies, queen, disguise

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairies, many plain people, queen), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fairies	det
2	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	nsubj
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 best	nmod:poss
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 did	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 soften	mark
8	soften	soften	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wrath	det
10	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 soften	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 sister	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 sister	nmod:poss
13	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wrath	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knowing	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 knowing	cc
16	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 did	advcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 knowing	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 people	punct
19	like	like	ADP	_	22 people	case
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 people	amod
21	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 people	amod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 knowing	conj
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 fairies	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 fairies	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 fairies	advmod
26	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 people	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 vain	punct
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 vain	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 vain	cop
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 vain	advmod
31	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fairies	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 entreated	punct
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 entreated	nsubj
34	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 vain	parataxis
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 entreated	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 drop	mark
37	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 entreated	xcomp
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 crab	nmod:poss
39	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 disguise	nmod:poss
40	's	's	PART	_	39 crab	case
41	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 drop	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 become	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 become	cc
44	to	to	PART	_	45 become	mark
45	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 entreated	conj
46	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	47 more	advmod
47	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	45 become	advmod
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 person	det
49	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 person	compound
50	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 more	nsubj
51	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 accustomed	nsubj
52	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 accustomed	aux:pass
53	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 person	acl:relcl
54	to	to	PART	_	55 see	mark
55	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 accustomed	xcomp
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the fairies	fairies's best		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
2	soften	to-infinitive	the fairies not said here	the wrath of fairies's sister		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wrath=Patient
3	know	gerund	the fairies not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not is a	present	many plain people	fairies		tree rules
5	is	past	queen		vain property	tree rules
6	entreat	past	fairies = fairy	queen		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
7	drop	to-infinitive	fairies = fairy not said here	queen's crab's disguise		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disguise=Theme
8	become	to-infinitive	fairies = fairy not said here			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
9	accustom	past · passive		fairies = fairy		tree rules
10	see	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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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