The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 17

'No; but he is so ugly and awkward no one can put up with him,' answered the stranger.

Who acts: rest, ugly one · What happens: be, put up, answer · To what, where: stranger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, ugly 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 put	punct
2	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 one	det
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 ugly	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 ugly	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ugly	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ugly	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 ugly	advmod
8	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 awkward	cc
10	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ugly	conj
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 put	aux
14	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 answered	ccomp
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 put	compound:prt
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 put	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 put	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 put	punct
20	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 stranger	det
22	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 answered	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	rest		ugly property	tree rules
2	be		rest not said here			tree rules
3	put up	can	no ugly one		with rest	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	answer speech: assert	past		the stranger		tree rules

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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