The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 29

The cause of their quarrel was known only to themselves, but everybody was aware of the fact, and took care to be out of the way when there was any chance of these two meeting.

Who acts: everybody, enemies, two meeting · What happens: know, be, take, cause, quarrel, chance · To what, where: cause, enemies, care, way, quarrel

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everybody, enemies, two meeting), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cause	det
2	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 known	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 quarrel	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 quarrel	nmod:poss
5	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cause	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 known	aux:pass
7	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 themselves	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 themselves	case
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 known	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 aware	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 aware	cc
13	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 aware	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 aware	cop
15	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 known	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 fact	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fact	det
18	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 aware	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 took	cc
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 known	parataxis
22	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	28 way	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 way	cop
25	out	out	ADP	_	28 way	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 way	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 way	det
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	advcl
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 was	advmod
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	31 was	expl
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 way	acl:relcl
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 chance	det
33	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 was	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 meeting	case
35	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	37 meeting	det
36	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 meeting	nummod
37	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 chance	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past · passive		the cause of enemies's quarrel	enemies = enemy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	is	past	everybody				of the fact; aware property	tree rules
3	take	past		care				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
4	is	to-infinitive				the way		tree rules
5	cause			enemies's quarrel				nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient
6	quarrel		enemies = enemy					nom quarrel «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
7	chance		this two meeting					nom chance «state 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 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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