The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 67

The bailiff was delighted at this chance of trying his strength, and at once went out to seek Andras and to coax him into giving proof of his vigour.

Who acts: bailiff, chance · What happens: be, try, go out, seek, coax, give · To what, where: chance, strength, Andras, proof, vigour

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bailiff, chance), 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	2 bailiff	det
2	bailiff	bailiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 delighted	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	cop
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 chance	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 chance	det
7	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 delighted	obl
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 trying	mark
9	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 chance	acl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 strength	nmod:poss
11	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trying	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 went	obl
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	conj
17	out	out	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 seek	mark
19	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 went	xcomp
20	Andras	Andras	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 seek	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 coax	cc
22	to	to	PART	_	23 coax	mark
23	coax	coax	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 seek	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 coax	obj
25	into	into	SCONJ	_	26 giving	mark
26	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 coax	advcl
27	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 giving	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 vigour	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 vigour	nmod:poss
30	vigour	vigour	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 proof	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the bailiff		this chance	delighted property	tree rules
2	try	gerund	this chance not said here	Andras's strength			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Eventuality
3	go out	past	the bailiff not said here			out property	tree rules
4	seek	to-infinitive	the bailiff not said here	Andras			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent andras=Theme
5	coax	to-infinitive	the bailiff not said here	Andras			vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	give	gerund	the bailiff not said here	proof of Andras's vigour			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proof=Theme
7	proof			Andras's vigour			nom proof «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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