The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 83

He had hoped for many months that the paper he had written had been lost or destroyed, and, indeed, when he saw it, was very unwilling to pay what he owed.

Who acts: debtor · What happens: hope, write, lose, destroy, see, be · To what, where: paper

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 (debtor), 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 hoped	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hoped	aux
3	hoped	hope	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 months	case
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 months	amod
6	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hoped	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 lost	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 paper	det
9	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lost	nsubj:pass
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 written	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 written	aux
12	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 paper	acl:relcl
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lost	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 lost	aux:pass
15	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 months	acl:relcl
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 destroyed	cc
17	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 lost	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 saw	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 saw	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 and	punct
21	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	25 saw	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 saw	punct
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 saw	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 saw	nsubj
25	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hoped	parataxis
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 saw	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 unwilling	punct
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 unwilling	cop
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 unwilling	advmod
30	unwilling	unwilling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 saw	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 pay	mark
32	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 unwilling	xcomp
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 pay	obj
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 owed	nsubj
35	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 what	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hoped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hope	past · perfect	debtor		month		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	write	past · perfect	debtor	the paper not said here			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Theme
3	lose	past · perfect · passive		the paper			tree rules
4	destroy	participle					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	see	past	debtor	paper		indeed property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
6	is	past	debtor not said here			unwilling property	tree rules
7	pay	to-infinitive	debtor not said here				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Asset
8	owe	past	debtor				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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