The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 75

The lookers- on cheered him, and indeed he well deserve it; but they waited anxiously all the same to see what the bailiff would do.

Who acts: lookers, stranger, bailiff · What happens: cheer, deserve, wait, see, do · To what, where: stranger, boat, same · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (lookers, stranger, bailiff), 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 lookers	det
2	lookers	looker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cheered	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 lookers	punct
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	5 cheered	mark
5	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cheered	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 deserve	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 deserve	cc
9	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	12 deserve	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 deserve	nsubj
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 deserve	advmod
12	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	5 cheered	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 deserve	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 waited	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 waited	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 waited	nsubj
17	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cheered	conj
18	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	_	17 waited	advmod
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 same	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 same	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 waited	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 see	mark
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 waited	advcl
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 do	obj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bailiff	det
26	bailiff	bailiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 do	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 do	aux
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 see	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cheered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cheer	past	the lookers	stranger		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
2	deserve	present	stranger	boat	indeed, well property	tree rules
3	wait	past	lookers = looker	all same	anxiously property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	lookers = looker not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	would	the bailiff			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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