The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 20

He had suffered every hardship that could be imagined--nettles had been his bed, wild fruits more bitter than gall his food, while his days had been spent in fighting the hideous monsters which kept him from the palace.

Who acts: king, nettles, hideous monsters · What happens: suffer, imagine, be, gall, spend, fight · To what, where: hardship, bed, food, days, hideous monsters, king

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, nettles, hideous 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 suffered	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 suffered	aux
3	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 hardship	det
5	hardship	hardship	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 suffered	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 imagined	nsubj:pass
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 imagined	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 imagined	aux:pass
9	imagined	imagine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hardship	acl:relcl
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 bed	punct
11	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bed	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 bed	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 bed	cop
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 bed	nmod:poss
15	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 suffered	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fruits	punct
17	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fruits	amod
18	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bed	conj
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 bitter	advmod
20	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fruits	amod
21	than	than	SCONJ	_	22 gall	mark
22	gall	gall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 bitter	xcomp
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 food	nmod:poss
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gall	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 spent	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 spent	mark
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 days	nmod:poss
28	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 spent	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 spent	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 spent	aux:pass
31	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 suffered	parataxis
32	in	in	SCONJ	_	33 fighting	mark
33	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 spent	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 monsters	det
35	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 monsters	amod
36	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 fighting	obj
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 kept	nsubj
38	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 monsters	acl:relcl
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 kept	obj
40	from	from	ADP	_	42 palace	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 palace	det
42	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 kept	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 suffered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	suffer	past · perfect	king	every hardship			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hardship=Stimulus
2	imagine	could · passive		every hardship			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is a	past · perfect	nettles	king's bed and wild fruits			tree rules
4	gall	infinitive	nettles not said here	king's food			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus food=Experiencer
5	spend	past · perfect · passive		king's days			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
6	fight	gerund		the hideous monsters			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=Co-Agent
7	keep	past	the hideous monsters		king	the palace	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary from palace=Eventuality

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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