The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 164

And even contrived to work the seals off the original letter and to fix them to this, so that no one could tell, unless they examined it closely, that it had ever been opened.

Who acts: one, questions · What happens: contrive, work, fix, tell, examine, open · To what, where: seals, questions, letter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, questions), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 contrived	cc
2	even	even	ADV	_	3 contrived	advmod
3	contrived	contrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 work	mark
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 contrived	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 seals	det
7	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 work	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	11 letter	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 letter	det
10	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 letter	amod
11	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fix	cc
13	to	to	PART	_	14 fix	mark
14	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 work	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fix	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 this	case
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 fix	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct
19	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 tell	mark
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 so	fixed
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tell	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 tell	aux
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fix	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 examined	punct
26	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	28 examined	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 examined	nsubj
28	examined	examine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 tell	ccomp
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 examined	obj
30	closely	closely	ADV	_	28 examined	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 opened	punct
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 opened	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 opened	nsubj:pass
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 opened	aux
35	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	37 opened	advmod
36	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 opened	aux:pass
37	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 tell	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 contrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	contrive	past					tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive		the seals		off the original letter	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent seal=Material
3	fix	to-infinitive		questions = question		to this	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient to this=Co-Patient
4	tell speech: assert	could	no one				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	examine a condition, not said to happen	past	questions = question	letter		closely property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	open	past · perfect · passive		letter	ever		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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 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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