The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 80

Once, when I was young, they tricked me to sitting on a brood of turkey's eggs myself, and when they were hatched the creatures were so stupid that nothing would make them learn to swim.

Who acts: I, eggs, creatures, nothing · What happens: be, trick, sit, hatch, make, learn · To what, where: me, brood, eggs

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, eggs, creatures, nothing), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 young	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 young	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 young	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 young	cop
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tricked	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tricked	nsubj
9	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 young	conj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tricked	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sitting	mark
12	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 tricked	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 brood	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 brood	det
15	brood	brood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sitting	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 eggs	case
17	turkey	turkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 eggs	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 turkey	case
19	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 brood	nmod
20	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 eggs	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hatched	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hatched	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 hatched	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hatched	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 hatched	aux:pass
26	hatched	hatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 sitting	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 creatures	det
28	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 stupid	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 stupid	cop
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 stupid	advmod
31	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hatched	parataxis
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 make	mark
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	35 make	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 make	aux
35	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 stupid	advcl
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 make	obj
37	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 make	xcomp
38	to	to	PART	_	39 swim	mark
39	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 learn	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 young	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	I			once, young property	tree rules
2	trick	past	eggs = egg	me			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	sit	gerund	eggs = egg not said here		a brood of turkey's eggs myself		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on brood=Location
4	hatch	past · passive		eggs = egg			vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: subject=Product
5	is	past	the creatures			stupid property	tree rules
6	make	would	nothing	eggs = egg			tree rules
7	learn	infinitive	eggs = egg not said here				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	swim	to-infinitive	eggs = egg not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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