The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 25

All the faces brightened at that, for, to tell the truth, they were nearly as dull as their mistress; so the queen had her way, and two beautiful horses were brought from the stable to draw the little chariot.

Who acts: faces, queen · What happens: brighten, tell, be, have, bring, draw · To what, where: faces, truth, way, two beautiful horses, stable, little chariot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faces, 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 faces	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 faces	det
3	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tell	nsubj
4	brightened	brighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 faces	acl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 that	case
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 brightened	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 tell	mark
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	11 tell	mark
11	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 truth	det
13	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tell	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dull	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dull	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dull	cop
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	19 dull	advmod
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 dull	advmod
19	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tell	conj
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 mistress	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mistress	nmod:poss
22	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dull	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	27 had	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 queen	det
26	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	ccomp
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 way	nmod:poss
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 brought	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 brought	cc
32	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 horses	nummod
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 horses	amod
34	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 brought	nsubj:pass
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 brought	aux:pass
36	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 had	conj
37	from	from	ADP	_	39 stable	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 stable	det
39	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 brought	obl
40	to	to	PART	_	41 draw	mark
41	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	36 brought	advcl
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 chariot	det
43	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 chariot	amod
44	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 draw	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	brighten	participle		all faces not said here	all faces		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	all faces	the truth			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is	past	faces = face			as faces's mistress; dull, nearly property	tree rules
4	have	past	the queen	queen's way			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
5	bring	past · passive		two beautiful horses	the stable		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from stable=Initial_Location
6	draw	to-infinitive		the little chariot			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Theme

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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