The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 43

And the wedding guests said that the knight had spoken well; and the two elder brothers were fain to leave the country, for no one would converse with them.

Who acts: wedding guests, two elder brothers, one · What happens: say, speak, be, leave, converse · To what, where: knight, country · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding guests, two elder brothers, one), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 guests	det
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guests	compound
4	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 spoken	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 knight	det
8	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spoken	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 spoken	aux
10	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	ccomp
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 spoken	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 fain	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fain	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 brothers	det
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 brothers	nummod
16	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 brothers	amod
17	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fain	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fain	cop
19	fain	fain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 leave	mark
21	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 fain	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 country	det
23	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leave	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 converse	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 converse	mark
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 converse	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 converse	aux
29	converse	converse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 leave	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 converse	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the wedding guests			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the knight	well property	tree rules
3	is	past	the two elder brothers		fain property	tree rules
4	leave	to-infinitive	the two elder brothers not said here	the country		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme
5	converse speech: other	would	no one		with brothers = brother	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-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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