The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 70

And, what is worse, they tell me in the village that my father is dead.

Who acts: brothers, village · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: me, village · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, village), 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 what	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worse	cop
5	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 what	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 village	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 village	det
12	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 dead	nsubj
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dead	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 dead	cop
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 village	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present				bad property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	brothers = brother	me	the village		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	is	present	the village			dead property	tree rules

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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