The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 26

In a few days the king was as well as ever, and the signs of the scratches were almost gone; but one foot still remained very sore, where a thorn had pierced deeply and had festered.

Who acts: few days, one foot · What happens: be, remain, pierce, fester, sign · To what, where: thorn, scratches

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few days, one foot), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 days	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 days	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gone	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gone	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	cop
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 well	advmod
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 gone	advmod
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 ever	case
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 well	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gone	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gone	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 signs	det
15	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gone	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 scratches	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 scratches	det
18	scratches	scratch	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 signs	nmod
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	cop
20	almost	almost	ADV	_	21 gone	advmod
21	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 remained	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 remained	cc
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 foot	nummod
25	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 remained	nsubj
26	still	still	ADV	_	27 remained	advmod
27	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	parataxis
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 sore	advmod
29	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 remained	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 pierced	punct
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 pierced	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 thorn	det
33	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pierced	nsubj:pass
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 pierced	aux
35	pierced	pierce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 remained	parataxis
36	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	35 pierced	advmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 festered	cc
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 festered	aux
39	festered	fester	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 pierced	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	a few days			almost, gone, well property	tree rules
2	remain	past	one foot		still	sore property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pierce	past · perfect · passive		a thorn		deeply property	vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	fester	past · perfect					vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	sign			the scratches			nom sign «communication 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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