The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 78

Jose did not ask any more questions, but did as the horse bade him; and men wondered at his cheerful face as they lowered him into the caldron of boiling oil.

Who acts: Jose, men · What happens: not ask, do, wonder, lower · To what, where: more questions, horse bade, cheerful face, Jose, caldron

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 (Jose, men), 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	Jose	Jose	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ask	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 ask	advmod
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	ADV	_	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 questions	amod
7	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ask	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 did	cc
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	parataxis
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 bade	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bade	det
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bade	compound
14	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 did	obj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bade	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 wondered	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wondered	cc
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 wondered	nsubj
19	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	parataxis
20	at	at	ADP	_	23 face	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 face	nmod:poss
22	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 face	amod
23	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wondered	obl
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 lowered	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 lowered	nsubj
26	lowered	lower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 wondered	advcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 lowered	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 caldron	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 caldron	det
30	caldron	caldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lowered	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 oil	case
32	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 oil	compound
33	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 caldron	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	past · do-support	Jose	more questions		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
2	do	past		the horse bade		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bade=Eventuality
3	wonder speech: ask	past	men		Jose's cheerful face	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	lower	past	men = man	Jose	the caldron of boiling oil	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into caldron=Destination

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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