The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 84

However, the stranger threatened to drag him before the king, and when the miser saw that there was no help for it he counted out the coins one by one.

Who acts: stranger, miser, help · What happens: threaten, drag, see, be, count out · To what, where: stranger, coins · 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 (stranger, miser, help), 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	However	however	ADV	_	5 threatened	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stranger	det
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threatened	nsubj
5	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 drag	mark
7	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 threatened	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 drag	obj
9	before	before	ADP	_	11 king	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drag	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 saw	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 saw	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 miser	det
16	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 threatened	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 was	mark
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 was	expl
20	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 saw	ccomp
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 help	det
22	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 was	nsubj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 help	nmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 counted	nsubj
26	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 help	acl:relcl
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 counted	compound:prt
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 coins	det
29	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 counted	obj
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 coins	flat
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 one	case
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 one	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 threatened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	past	the stranger				however property	tree rules
2	drag not said to happen	to-infinitive	the stranger not said here	stranger		before the king		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	see	past	the miser					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	be	past	no help for miser		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	count out	past	help	the coins				vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme

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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