The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 80

The bailiff turned red with anger at his rival's scornful words, and answered quickly: 'Next time you will have something harder to do.'

Who acts: bailiff, you, something, rival · What happens: turn, answer, have, do, word · To what, where: scornful words, something

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, you, something, rival), 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	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turned	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 anger	case
6	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	12 words	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 rival	nmod:poss
9	rival	rival	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 words	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 rival	case
11	scornful	scornful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 words	amod
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 answered	cc
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	parataxis
16	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	15 answered	advmod
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
19	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 time	amod
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	obl:unmarked
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 have	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 have	aux
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turned	parataxis
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 have	obj
25	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 something	amod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 do	mark
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 harder	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the bailiff		bailiff's rival's scornful words		with anger; red property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at word=Trajectory
2	answer speech: assert	past					quickly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	future	you	something		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
4	do	to-infinitive	something not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	word		bailiff's rival					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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