The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 32

In his spare time, instead of playing with the other boys, he passed hours poring over books, and because he was timid and liked to be alone he was held by everyone to be a little mad.

Who acts: spare time, Gilguerillo, everyone · What happens: play, pass, pore, be, like, hold · To what, where: books, Gilguerillo

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spare time, Gilguerillo, everyone), 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 time	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 time	nmod:poss
3	spare	spare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 passed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 playing	punct
6	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	8 playing	mark
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 instead	fixed
8	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 time	acl
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 boys	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boys	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boys	amod
12	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 playing	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 passed	nsubj
15	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 passed	obj
17	poring	pore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 passed	advcl
18	over	over	ADP	_	19 books	case
19	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 poring	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 held	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 held	cc
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 timid	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 timid	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 timid	cop
25	timid	timid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 held	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 liked	cc
27	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 timid	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	30 alone	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 alone	cop
30	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 liked	xcomp
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 held	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 held	aux:pass
33	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 passed	conj
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 everyone	case
35	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	33 held	obl
36	to	to	PART	_	40 mad	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 mad	cop
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 little	det
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 mad	obl:unmarked
40	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 held	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund	Gilguerillo's spare time not said here				with the other boys	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with boy=Co-Agent
2	pass	past	Gilguerillo			hour; time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pore	gerund	Gilguerillo not said here		books			tree rules
4	is	past	Gilguerillo				timid property	tree rules
5	like	participle	Gilguerillo not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
6	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	Gilguerillo not said here				alone property	tree rules
7	hold	past · passive	everyone	Gilguerillo				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
8	is	to-infinitive	everyone not said here				a little obl:unmarked; mad property	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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