The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 96

But he did his duties so well that his master soon took notice of him, and in a short time he rose to be a gentleman of the bedchamber.

Who acts: husband, master · What happens: do, take, rise, be, notice · To what, where: duties, notice, gentleman, husband

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 (husband, master), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 did	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 duties	nmod:poss
5	duties	duty	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 well	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 did	advmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 took	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 master	nmod:poss
10	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	nsubj
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 took	advmod
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
13	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 notice	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rose	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 rose	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 time	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 time	det
20	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 time	amod
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rose	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 rose	nsubj
23	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	27 gentleman	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 gentleman	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 gentleman	det
27	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rose	xcomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 bedchamber	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bedchamber	det
30	bedchamber	bedchamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gentleman	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	husband	husband's duties		well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality
2	take	past	husband's master	notice of husband		soon property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
3	rise	past	husband		time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	to-infinitive	husband not said here	a gentleman		of the bedchamber	tree rules
5	notice			husband			nom notice «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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