The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 105

Here he upheld the law with might and main, and was a terror to thieves and evildoers; but the judge was a bad man, who took bribes, and despised the law.

Who acts: master, judge, bad man · What happens: uphold, be, take, despise · To what, where: law, terror, bad man, bribes

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, judge, bad man), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 upheld	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 upheld	nsubj
3	upheld	uphold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 law	det
5	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 upheld	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 might	case
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 law	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 main	cc
9	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 might	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 terror	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 terror	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 terror	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 terror	det
14	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 upheld	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 thieves	case
16	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 terror	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 evildoers	cc
18	evildoers	evildoer	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 thieves	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 man	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 man	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 judge	det
22	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 man	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 man	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 upheld	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 took	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 took	nsubj
29	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 man	acl:relcl
30	bribes	bribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 took	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 despised	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 despised	cc
33	despised	despise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 upheld	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 law	det
35	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 despised	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 upheld	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	uphold	past	master	the law	here		tree rules
2	is a	past		a terror		to thieves and evildoers	tree rules
3	is a	past	the judge	a bad man			tree rules
4	take	past	a bad man	bribes			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bribe=Theme
5	despise	past	master not said here	the law			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer law=Stimulus

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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