The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 108

The poor children did not answer the insult; but it made them very unhappy.

Who acts: poor children, insult · What happens: not answer, make · To what, where: insult, 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 (poor children, insult), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 children	amod
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 answer	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 answer	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 answer	advmod
6	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 insult	det
8	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answer	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 made	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 made	nsubj
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 answer	parataxis
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 made	obj
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 unhappy	advmod
15	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 made	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not answer speech: assert	past · do-support	the poor children	the insult					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent insult=Eventuality
2	make	past	insult	children = child				unhappy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product

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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