The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 44

Most of them, he knew, were merely invented by old women, who sought to prove themselves wiser than other people; but at length he came to something which caused him to sit up straight in his chair, and made his eyes brighten.

Who acts: Most, old women, Gilguerillo, eyes · What happens: know, invent, seek, prove, come, cause · To what, where: diseases, length, Gilguerillo, chair · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Most, old women, Gilguerillo, eyes), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 knew	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Most	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Most	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knew	nsubj
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 invented	punct
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 invented	aux:pass
9	merely	merely	ADV	_	10 invented	advmod
10	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 knew	ccomp
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 women	case
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 women	amod
13	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 invented	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sought	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 sought	nsubj
16	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 women	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 prove	mark
18	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sought	xcomp
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 prove	obj
20	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 prove	xcomp
21	than	than	ADP	_	23 people	case
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 people	amod
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 wiser	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 came	cc
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 length	case
27	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knew	parataxis
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 something	case
31	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 came	obl
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 caused	nsubj
33	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 something	acl:relcl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 caused	iobj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 sit	mark
36	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 caused	xcomp
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 sit	compound:prt
38	straight	straight	ADV	_	41 chair	advmod
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 chair	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 chair	nmod:poss
41	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sit	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 made	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 made	cc
44	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 came	conj
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 eyes	nmod:poss
46	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 brighten	nsubj
47	brighten	brighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 made	xcomp
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	Most of diseases					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	invent	past · passive	old women				merely property	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	seek	past	old women					tree rules
4	prove not said to happen	to-infinitive	old women not said here	diseases = disease			wise property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
5	come	past	Gilguerillo			length	to something	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to something=Initial_Location
6	cause	past			Gilguerillo			tree rules
7	sit up	to-infinitive				Gilguerillo's chair		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location
8	make	past	Gilguerillo not said here					tree rules
9	brighten	present	Gilguerillo's eyes					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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