The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 36

From this, one of them, who seemed to be a person of quality, made me a long speech, of which I could not understand a word, though I could tell from his manner that he sometimes threatened me, and sometimes spoke with pity and kindness.

Who acts: one, I, person · What happens: seem, be, make, not understand, tell, threaten · To what, where: person, long speech, me, word, manner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, I, person), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 one	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 this	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 seemed	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 one	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seemed	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 seemed	nsubj
9	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	13 person	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 person	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 person	det
13	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seemed	xcomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 quality	case
15	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 person	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seemed	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 made	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 speech	det
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 speech	amod
21	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 understand	punct
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 understand	obl
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 understand	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 understand	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 understand	advmod
28	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 made	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 word	det
30	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 understand	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 tell	punct
32	though	though	SCONJ	_	35 tell	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 tell	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 tell	aux
35	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 understand	parataxis
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 manner	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 manner	nmod:poss
38	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tell	obl
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 threatened	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 threatened	nsubj
41	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	42 threatened	advmod
42	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 tell	advcl
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 threatened	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 spoke	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 spoke	cc
46	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	47 spoke	advmod
47	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seemed	parataxis
48	with	with	ADP	_	49 pity	case
49	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 spoke	obl
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 kindness	cc
51	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 pity	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	one of strings					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive	one of strings not said here	a person			of quality	tree rules
3	make	past	one of strings not said here	a long speech	me			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary speech=Product
4	not understand	could	I	a word				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
5	tell speech: assert	could	I			person's manner		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	threaten	past	person	me			sometimes property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
7	speak speech: other	past					with pity and kindness; sometimes property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with pity=Co-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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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