The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 73
But the messengers returned with the sad news that the doctor had died some weeks before, and, what was worse, his secret had died with him.
Who acts: messengers, doctor, secret · What happens: return, die, be · To what, where: sad news
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 (messengers, doctor, secret), 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 returned | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 messengers | det |
| 3 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 news | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 news | det |
| 7 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 news | amod |
| 8 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 died | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 doctor | det |
| 11 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 died | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 died | aux |
| 13 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 news | acl:relcl |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 weeks | det |
| 15 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 before | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | before | before | ADV | _ | 13 died | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 worse | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 worse | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 worse | punct |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 worse | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 worse | cop |
| 22 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 returned | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 died | punct |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 secret | nmod:poss |
| 25 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 died | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 died | aux |
| 27 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 worse | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 died | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the messengers | with the sad news | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | die | past · perfect | the doctor | the sad news not said here | before property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | bad property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | die | past · perfect | king's secret | with king | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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