The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 101

Somehow or other food was never lacking in the hut, and the children grew up and were so good and gentle that, in time, their foster-parents loved them as well or better than their own, who were quarrelsome and envious.

Who acts: children, that, foster parents · What happens: not lack, grow up, be, love · To what, where: hut, children

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, that, foster parents), 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	Somehow	somehow	ADV	_	7 lacking	advmod
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 food	cc
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 food	amod
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Somehow	conj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lacking	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 lacking	advmod
7	lacking	lack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hut	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hut	det
10	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lacking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grew	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 grew	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 children	det
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 grew	nsubj
15	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lacking	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 grew	compound:prt
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 good	cc
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 good	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 good	advmod
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grew	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 gentle	cc
22	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 good	conj
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 good	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 time	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 time	case
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grew	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 loved	punct
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 parents	nmod:poss
29	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 parents	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 foster	punct
31	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 loved	nsubj
32	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 grew	parataxis
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 loved	obj
34	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	37 better	cc
35	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 as	fixed
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 better	cc
37	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 loved	conj
38	than	than	ADP	_	40 own	case
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 own	nmod:poss
40	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 better	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 quarrelsome	punct
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 quarrelsome	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 quarrelsome	cop
44	quarrelsome	quarrelsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 better	conj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 envious	cc
46	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 quarrelsome	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lacking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not lack	past · progressive			the hut		somehow property	tree rules
2	grow up	past	the children			time		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	that				good property	tree rules
4	be		that not said here					tree rules
5	love	past	children's foster parents	children = child				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
6	is	past					quarrelsome property	tree rules
7	be							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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