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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 99

The elder, who was always ready to help everyone spoke to the king on his behalf, and the next day the young man took up is work at court.

Who acts: everyone, young man, elder · What happens: be, help, speak, take up · To what, where: behalf, next day, day work, court · 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 (everyone, young man, elder), 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

detnsubjpunctnsubjcopadvmodconjmarkxcompnsubjccompcasedetoblcasenmod:possoblpunctccdetamodcompounddetamodnsubjacl:relclcompound:prtcopcasenmodpunctrootTheDETelderADJ,PUNCTwhoPRONwasAUXalwaysADVreadyADJtoPARThelpVERBeveryonePRONspokeVERBtoADPtheDETkingNOUNonADPhisPRONbehalfNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETnextADJdayNOUNtheDETyoungADJmanNOUNtookVERBupADPisAUXworkNOUNatADPcourtNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 elderdet
2elderelderADJDegree=Pos29 worknsubj
3,,PUNCT_7 readypunct
4whowhoPRONPronType=Rel7 readynsubj
5wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 readycop
6alwaysalwaysADVPronType=Tot7 readyadvmod
7readyreadyADJDegree=Pos2 elderconj
8totoPART_9 helpmark
9helphelpVERBVerbForm=Inf7 readyxcomp
10everyoneeveryonePRONNumber=Sing PronType=Tot11 spokensubj
11spokespeakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 helpccomp
12totoADP_14 kingcase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 kingdet
14kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing11 spokeobl
15ononADP_17 behalfcase
16hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 behalfnmod:poss
17behalfbehalfNOUNNumber=Sing11 spokeobl
18,,PUNCT_29 workpunct
19andandCCONJ_29 workcc
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 daydet
21nextnextADJDegree=Pos22 dayamod
22daydayNOUNNumber=Sing29 workcompound
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 mandet
24youngyoungADJDegree=Pos25 manamod
25manmanNOUNNumber=Sing26 tooknsubj
26tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 dayacl:relcl
27upupADP_26 tookcompound:prt
28isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin29 workcop
29workworkNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
30atatADP_31 courtcase
31courtcourtNOUNNumber=Sing29 worknmod
32..PUNCT_29 workpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastalways, ready propertytree rules
2helpto-infinitivevn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3speak speech: otherpasteveryoneking's behalfto the kingvn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to king=Co-Agent
4take uppastthe young manthe next day not said herevn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Theme
5is apresentthe elderday workcourttree 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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