The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 79

But, in spite of himself, he could not help a thrill of joy when he was out in the air and water once more, and cared little for the rude glances of the creatures he met.

Who acts: spite, creatures · What happens: not help, be, care, meet, spite, thrill · To what, where: thrill, air, creatures, spite, joy

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 (spite, creatures), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 help	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spite	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 spite	case
4	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 help	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 himself	case
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 spite	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spite	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 help	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 help	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 help	advmod
11	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thrill	det
13	thrill	thrill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 help	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 joy	case
15	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thrill	nmod
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 out	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 out	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 out	cop
19	out	out	ADV	_	11 help	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 air	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 air	det
22	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 out	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 water	cc
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 air	conj
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 more	advmod
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 air	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 cared	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 cared	cc
29	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 help	parataxis
30	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 cared	advmod
31	for	for	ADP	_	34 glances	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 glances	det
33	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 glances	amod
34	glances	glance	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 cared	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 creatures	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 creatures	det
37	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 glances	nmod
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 met	nsubj
39	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 creatures	acl:relcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not help	could	spite of spite	a thrill of joy			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thrill=Beneficiary
2	is	past	spite		the air and water	out property	tree rules
3	care	past				for the rude glances of the creatures; little property	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for glance=Theme
4	meet	past	spite	the creatures not said here			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Co-Agent
5	spite			spite			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
6	thrill			joy			nom thrill «feeling transitive»: of=patient
7	glance		the creatures				nom glance «act intransitive»: of=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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