The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 15

They were always very polite when they met; but, in spite of that, they kept a close watch one upon the other, as each was afraid of being killed and eaten by somebody else.

Who acts: sorts, each · What happens: be, meet, keep, watch, kill, eat · To what, where: one, that

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorts, each), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 polite	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 polite	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 polite	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 polite	advmod
5	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 met	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 met	nsubj
8	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 polite	advcl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 kept	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 kept	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spite	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 spite	case
13	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kept	ccomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 that	case
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 spite	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spite	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 kept	nsubj
18	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 polite	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 close	det
20	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 kept	xcomp
21	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 kept	xcomp
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 watch	obj
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 other	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 other	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 one	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 afraid	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 afraid	mark
28	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	30 afraid	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 afraid	cop
30	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 kept	advcl
31	of	of	SCONJ	_	33 killed	mark
32	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 killed	aux:pass
33	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 afraid	xcomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 eaten	cc
35	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 killed	conj
36	by	by	ADP	_	37 somebody	case
37	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	35 eaten	obl
38	else	else	ADV	_	37 somebody	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 polite	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	sorts = sort		always, polite property	tree rules
2	meet	past	sorts = sort			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	keep	past	sorts = sort		close property	tree rules
4	watch	infinitive	sorts = sort not said here	one	upon the other	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
5	is	past	each		afraid property	tree rules
6	kill	gerund · passive	each not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
7	eat	participle	each not said here		by somebody	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	spite			that		nom spite «feeling 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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