The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 102

It did not take the orphans long to notice that the boys did not like them, and were always playing tricks on them, so they used to go away by themselves and spend whole hours by the banks of the river.

Who acts: It, boys, boy · What happens: not take, notice, not like, play, use, go away · To what, where: orphans, tricks · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (It, boys, boy), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 take	advmod
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 orphans	det
6	orphans	orphan	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	obj
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 take	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 notice	mark
9	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 long	advcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 like	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boys	det
12	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 like	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 like	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 like	advmod
15	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 notice	ccomp
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 like	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 playing	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 playing	cc
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 playing	aux
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 playing	advmod
21	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 take	advcl
22	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 playing	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 playing	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 used	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 used	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 used	nsubj
28	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 take	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 go	mark
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 used	xcomp
31	away	away	ADV	_	30 go	advmod
32	by	by	ADP	_	33 themselves	case
33	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 go	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 spend	cc
35	spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 used	conj
36	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 hours	amod
37	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 spend	obj
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 banks	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 banks	det
40	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 spend	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 river	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 river	det
43	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 banks	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not take	past · do-support	It		the orphans			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument orphan=Destination
2	notice	to-infinitive						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	not like	past · do-support	the boys	orphans = orphan				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
4	play	past · progressive		tricks			on boy; always property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme
5	use	past	boy					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	go away	to-infinitive	boy not said here				by boy; away property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by themselves=Location
7	spend	present	boy not said here			hour	by the banks of the river	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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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