The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 37

The clerk comforted them as best he could; he also was greatly distressed that Peter should have behaved in such a way just when he should have gained honour from his pupil.

Who acts: clerk, Peter · What happens: comfort, distress, behave, gain · To what, where: parents, Peter, way, honour

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clerk, Peter), 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 clerk	det
2	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comforted	nsubj
3	comforted	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 comforted	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 best	case
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 comforted	parataxis
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 could	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 best	parataxis
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 distressed	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 distressed	nsubj
11	also	also	ADV	_	14 distressed	advmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 distressed	aux:pass
13	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	14 distressed	advmod
14	distressed	distress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 comforted	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 behaved	mark
16	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 behaved	nsubj:pass
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 behaved	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 behaved	aux
19	behaved	behave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 distressed	advcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 way	case
21	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	23 way	det:predet
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 way	det
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 behaved	obl
24	just	just	ADV	_	29 gained	advmod
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 gained	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gained	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 gained	aux
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 gained	aux
29	gained	gain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 behaved	advcl
30	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gained	obj
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 pupil	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 pupil	nmod:poss
33	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 honour	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 comforted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	comfort	past	the clerk	parents = parent			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
2	distress	past · passive		Peter		greatly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	behave	should · perfect · passive		Peter	such way		tree rules
4	gain	should · perfect	Peter	honour		from Peter's pupil	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent honour=Theme from pupil=Source

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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