The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 82

This naturally displeased the ambassadors who had conducted the bride to court, and one of them inquired indignantly if he meant to put such an insult on the princess on the word of a mere frog.

Who acts: This, ambassadors, one, ambassador · What happens: displease, conduct, inquire, mean, put, word · To what, where: ambassadors, bride, court, insult, mere frog

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, ambassadors, one, ambassador), 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	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 displeased	nsubj
2	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	3 displeased	advmod
3	displeased	displease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ambassadors	det
5	ambassadors	ambassador	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 displeased	obj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 conducted	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 conducted	aux
8	conducted	conduct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 ambassadors	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bride	det
10	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 conducted	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 court	case
12	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 conducted	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 inquired	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 inquired	cc
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 inquired	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 one	nmod
18	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 displeased	conj
19	indignantly	indignantly	ADV	_	18 inquired	advmod
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 meant	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 meant	nsubj
22	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 inquired	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 put	mark
24	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 meant	xcomp
25	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	27 insult	det:predet
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 insult	det
27	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 princess	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 princess	det
30	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obl
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 word	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 word	det
33	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 princess	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 frog	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 frog	det
36	mere	mere	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 frog	compound
37	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 word	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 displeased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	displease	past	This	the ambassadors		naturally property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ambassador=Experiencer
2	conduct	past · perfect	the ambassadors	the bride	court		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bride=Theme to court=Destination
3	inquire speech: other	past	one of councillors			indignantly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	mean a condition, not said to happen	past	ambassador				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	put not said to happen	to-infinitive	ambassador not said here	such insult		on the princess on the word of a mere frog	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent insult=Theme on princess=Destination
6	word			a mere frog			nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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