The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 85

To their disappointment their own land was so well governed that nothing out of the common was very likely to happen, but directly they crossed the border into another kingdom all seemed lawlessness and confusion.

Who acts: own land, nothing, adventures · What happens: be, happen, cross, seem, disappoint · To what, where: border, kingdom, lawlessness

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (own land, nothing, adventures), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 disappointment	case
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 disappointment	nmod:poss
3	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 land	obl
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 land	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 land	amod
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 governed	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 governed	advmod
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 governed	advmod
10	governed	govern	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 land	acl:relcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 likely	mark
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 likely	nsubj
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 common	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 common	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 common	det
16	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nothing	nmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 likely	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 likely	advmod
19	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 governed	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 happen	mark
21	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 likely	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 crossed	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 crossed	cc
24	directly	directly	ADV	_	26 crossed	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 crossed	nsubj
26	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 governed	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 border	det
28	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 crossed	obj
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 kingdom	case
30	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	31 kingdom	det
31	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 crossed	obl
32	all	all	ADV	_	33 seemed	advmod
33	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 governed	advcl
34	lawlessness	lawlessness	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seemed	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 confusion	cc
36	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lawlessness	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 land	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	adventures's own land not said here			govern, well property	tree rules
2	is	past	nothing			likely property	tree rules
3	happen	to-infinitive	nothing not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cross	past	adventures = adventure	the border	another kingdom	directly property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent border=Patient into kingdom=Recipient
5	seem	past	adventures's own land not said here	lawlessness and confusion		all property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lawlessness=Attribute
6	disappoint		adventures = adventure				nom disappointment «feeling transitive»: poss=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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