The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 87

This news cured the young man in an instant of all his ills; and he began to plan out every detail of dress and of horses and carriages which were necessary to make the train of the envoy, whose name was Becasigue, as splendid as possible.

Who acts: news, horses, name, Becasigue · What happens: cure, begin, plan out, be, make, detail · To what, where: young man, instant, detail, train, Becasigue, dress

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 (news, horses, name, Becasigue), 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 news	det
2	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cured	nsubj
3	cured	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cured	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 instant	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 instant	det
9	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cured	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 ills	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 ills	det:predet
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 ills	nmod:poss
13	ills	ill	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 instant	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 began	nsubj
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cured	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 plan	mark
19	plan	plan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 plan	compound:prt
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 detail	det
22	detail	detail	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 plan	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 dress	case
24	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 detail	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 horses	cc
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 horses	case
27	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 began	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 carriages	cc
29	carriages	carriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 horses	conj
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 necessary	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 necessary	cop
32	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 horses	acl:relcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 make	mark
34	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 necessary	csubj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 train	det
36	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 make	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 envoy	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 envoy	det
39	envoy	envoy	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 train	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 Becasigue	punct
41	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	42 name	nmod:poss
42	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 Becasigue	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 Becasigue	cop
44	Becasigue	Becasigue	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 envoy	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 splendid	punct
46	as	as	ADV	_	47 splendid	advmod
47	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 Becasigue	appos
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 possible	mark
49	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 splendid	advcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cure	past	this news	the young man	a instant of news's ills		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer man=Source
2	begin	past	news				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	plan out	to-infinitive	news not said here	every detail of dress			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Topic
4	is	past	horses and carriages			necessary property	tree rules
5	make	to-infinitive		the train of the envoy			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset train=Product
6	is a	past	Becasigue's name	Becasigue			tree rules
7	detail			dress			nom detail «cognition transitive»: of=patient
8	name		Becasigue				nom name «communication transitive»: 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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