The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 48

'Now that we are rich people we must build a bigger house,' cried she; and was vexed to find that Peder only shook his head and said: 'No; if they did that people would talk, and say they had got their wealth by ill-doing.'

Who acts: we, rich people, Peder, people · What happens: be, build, cry, vex, find, shake · To what, where: rich people, bigger house, Kirsten, head, wealth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, rich people, Peder, people), 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	_	10 build	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 build	advmod
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 people	mark
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 people	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 people	cop
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 build	nsubj
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 build	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 build	aux
10	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 cried	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 house	det
12	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 house	amod
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 build	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 build	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 build	punct
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cried	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 vexed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 vexed	cc
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 vexed	aux:pass
21	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 cried	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 find	mark
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 vexed	advcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 shook	mark
25	Peder	Peder	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 shook	nsubj
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 shook	advmod
27	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 find	ccomp
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shook	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 shook	conj
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 '	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
34	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 '	obj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 did	punct
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 did	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 did	nsubj
38	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 vexed	conj
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 talk	mark
40	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 talk	nsubj
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 talk	aux
42	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 did	advcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 say	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 say	cc
45	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 cried	conj
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 got	nsubj
47	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 got	aux
48	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 say	ccomp
49	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 wealth	nmod:poss
50	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 got	obj
51	by	by	SCONJ	_	54 doing	mark
52	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 doing	amod
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 ill	punct
54	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 got	advcl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct
56	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	present	we	rich people		tree rules
2	build	must	rich people	a bigger house	now	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product
3	cry speech: express	past		Kirsten		tree rules
4	vex	past · passive				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
5	find	to-infinitive				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	shake	past	Peder	Peder's head		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
7	say speech: assert	past	Peder not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	do a condition, not said to happen	past	people			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	talk	would	people			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	say speech: assert	present				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
11	get	past · perfect	people	people's wealth		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wealth=Stimulus
12	do	gerund	people not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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