The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 89
'Then they did very ill,' answered the king, with a frown. '
Who acts: servants · What happens: do, answer · To what, where: king
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 (servants), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 did | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 ill | advmod |
| 6 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 did | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 frown | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 frown | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 frown | det |
| 15 | frown | frown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | servants = servant | then | ill property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the king | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=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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