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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 78

However, she held her peace, and only watched with amusement when the courtiers, knowing there was no help for it, did homage and obeisance to the chemist's boy.

Who acts: Diamantina, courtiers, help · What happens: hold, watch, know, be, do, pacify · To what, where: peace, homage · 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 (Diamantina, courtiers, help), 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

advmodpunctnsubjnmod:possobjpunctccadvmodconjcaseobladvmoddetnsubjpunctadvclexplccompdetnsubjcasenmodpunctconjobjccconjcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctrootHoweverADV,PUNCTshePRONheldVERBherPRONpeaceNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJonlyADVwatchedVERBwithADPamusementNOUNwhenADVtheDETcourtiersNOUN,PUNCTknowingVERBtherePRONwasVERBnoDEThelpNOUNforADPitPRON,PUNCTdidVERBhomageNOUNandCCONJobeisanceNOUNtoADPtheDETchemistNOUN'sPARTboyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HoweverhoweverADV_4 heldadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Howeverpunct
3sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 heldnsubj
4heldholdVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 peacenmod:poss
6peacepeaceNOUNNumber=Sing4 heldobj
7,,PUNCT_10 watchedpunct
8andandCCONJ_10 watchedcc
9onlyonlyADV_10 watchedadvmod
10watchedwatchVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass4 heldconj
11withwithADP_12 amusementcase
12amusementamusementNOUNNumber=Sing10 watchedobl
13whenwhenADVPronType=Int17 knowingadvmod
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 courtiersdet
15courtierscourtierNOUNNumber=Plur17 knowingnsubj
16,,PUNCT_17 knowingpunct
17knowingknowVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part10 watchedadvcl
18theretherePRONPronType=Dem19 wasexpl
19wasbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 knowingccomp
20nonoDETPronType=Neg21 helpdet
21helphelpNOUNNumber=Sing19 wasnsubj
22forforADP_23 itcase
23ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 helpnmod
24,,PUNCT_25 didpunct
25diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 heldconj
26homagehomageNOUNNumber=Sing25 didobj
27andandCCONJ_28 obeisancecc
28obeisanceobeisanceNOUNNumber=Sing26 homageconj
29totoADP_33 boycase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 chemistdet
31chemistchemistNOUNNumber=Sing33 boynmod:poss
32's'sPART_31 chemistcase
33boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing25 didobl
34..PUNCT_4 heldpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1holdpastDiamantinaDiamantina's peacehowever propertyvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme
2watchparticipleDiamantina not said herewith amusementvn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3knowgerundthe courtiersvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4bepastno help for amusementtherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5dopastDiamantina not said herehomage and obeisanceto the chemist's boyvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homage=Eventuality
6pacifyDiamantinanom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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