The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 45

But the doctor said he would accept nothing more than had been agreed on, and must return at once to his own country, where many sick people were awaiting him.

Who acts: doctor, king, many sick people · What happens: say, accept, agree on, return, await · To what, where: nothing, king · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (doctor, king, many sick people), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 doctor	det
3	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 accept	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 accept	aux
7	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 accept	obj
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	13 agreed	advmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	9 more	fixed
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 agreed	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 agreed	aux:pass
13	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 accept	advcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	13 agreed	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 return	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 return	cc
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 return	aux
18	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 once	case
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 return	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 country	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 country	nmod:poss
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 country	amod
24	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 return	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 awaiting	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 awaiting	advmod
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 people	amod
28	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 people	amod
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 awaiting	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 awaiting	aux
31	awaiting	await	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 return	advcl
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 awaiting	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the doctor			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	accept	would	king	nothing		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
3	agree on speech: agree	past · perfect · passive	king not said here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»
4	return	must			to king's own country result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result
5	await	past · progressive	many sick people	king		tree rules

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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