The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 98

And not content with that the six thousand froggy servants were told to help also, and it was not long before they had built the prettiest little cabin in the world, and made a bed in one corner of dried ferns which they fetched from the top of the ten thousand steps.

Who acts: thousand froggy servants, dried ferns · What happens: tell, help, build, make, dry, fetch · To what, where: thousand froggy servants, tree, bed, one corner, top · 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 (thousand froggy servants, dried ferns), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 content	cc
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 content	advmod
3	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	SCONJ	_	12 told	mark
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 told	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 servants	det
7	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 thousand	nummod
8	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 servants	nummod
9	froggy	froggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 servants	amod
10	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 told	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	aux:pass
12	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 content	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 help	mark
14	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 told	xcomp
15	also	also	ADV	_	14 help	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 built	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 built	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 built	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 built	aux:pass
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 long	advmod
21	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 built	advmod
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	25 built	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 built	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 built	aux
25	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 content	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cabin	det
27	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 cabin	amod
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cabin	amod
29	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 built	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 world	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cabin	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 made	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 made	cc
35	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 content	parataxis
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 bed	det
37	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 made	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 corner	case
39	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 corner	nummod
40	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 made	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 ferns	case
42	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 ferns	amod
43	ferns	fern	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 corner	nmod
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 fetched	nsubj
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 fetched	nsubj
46	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 ferns	acl:relcl
47	from	from	ADP	_	49 top	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 top	det
49	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 fetched	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	54 steps	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 steps	det
52	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 thousand	compound
53	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	54 steps	nummod
54	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 top	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 content	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		the thousand froggy servants			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	the thousand froggy servants not said here				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	build	past · perfect · passive		tree		long property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary cabin=Product
4	make	past		a bed	one corner of dried ferns		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bed=Product
5	dry	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	fetch	past	dried ferns		the top of the thousand steps		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from top=Source

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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