The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 72

'Once upon a time they were men and women like yourself,' answered the frog, 'but having power in their hands, they used it for their own pleasure.

Who acts: monsters · What happens: be, answer, have, use, please · To what, where: men, frog, power, hands

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 (monsters), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Once	punct
2	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 used	advmod
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 time	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Once	obl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 men	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 men	cop
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 time	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 women	cc
10	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 men	conj
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 yourself	case
12	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 women	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 men	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 frog	det
17	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 answered	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 men	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 having	cc
21	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Once	conj
22	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 having	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 hands	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hands	nmod:poss
25	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 having	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 used	punct
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 used	nsubj
28	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 used	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 pleasure	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 pleasure	nmod:poss
32	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 pleasure	amod
33	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 used	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	monsters = monster	men and women like yourself				tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past			the frog			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent frog=Eventuality
3	have	gerund	monsters = monster not said here	power		monsters's hands		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
4	use	past	monsters = monster	power			for monsters's own pleasure; once property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent it=Theme for pleasure=Eventuality
5	please		monsters = monster					nom pleasure «feeling 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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