The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 105

But though the little orphans did their best to avoid quarrelling with their foster- brothers, it was very difficult always to keep the peace.

What happens: avoid, quarrell, be, keep · To what, where: peace

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: 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	_	10 avoid	cc
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 did	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 orphans	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 orphans	amod
5	orphans	orphan	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 avoid	aux
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 best	nmod:poss
8	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 did	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 avoid	mark
10	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	quarrelling	quarrell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 avoid	xcomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	16 brothers	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 brothers	nmod:poss
14	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brothers	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 foster	punct
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 quarrelling	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 difficult	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 difficult	expl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 difficult	cop
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 difficult	advmod
21	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 avoid	conj
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 difficult	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 keep	mark
24	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 difficult	csubj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 peace	det
26	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 keep	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 avoid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	avoid	past · do-support			vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	quarrell	gerund		with orphans's foster brothers	tree rules
3	is	past		always, difficult property	tree rules
4	keep	to-infinitive	the peace		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=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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