The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 131
Our people, who were once so innocent and well-behaved, have been corrupted by the bad examples of men.
Who acts: people, bad examples · What happens: be, behave, corrupt, exemplify · To what, where: people, men
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 (people, bad examples), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 people | nmod:poss |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 corrupted | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 innocent | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 innocent | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 innocent | cop |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 innocent | advmod |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 innocent | advmod |
| 8 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 behaved | cc |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 behaved | advmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 well | punct |
| 12 | behaved | behave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 innocent | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 people | punct |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 corrupted | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 corrupted | aux:pass |
| 16 | corrupted | corrupt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 examples | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 examples | det |
| 19 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 examples | amod |
| 20 | examples | example | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 corrupted | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 men | case |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 examples | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 corrupted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Our people | innocent, once property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | behave | participle | Our people not said here | well property | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | corrupt | present · perfect · passive | the bad examples of men | Our people | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | exemplify | men | nom example «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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