The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 40

This Sir Red became angry with the eleven brothers, because they would not always stand at attention for him, so he determined to avenge himself on them.

Who acts: Red, brothers · What happens: become, not stand, determine, avenge · To what, where: attention, Red

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Red, brothers), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 Red	nsubj
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Red	nmod:desc
3	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 became	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 brothers	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brothers	det
8	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 brothers	nummod
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 angry	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stand	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 stand	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stand	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 stand	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 stand	advmod
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 stand	advmod
16	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 became	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 attention	case
18	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stand	obl
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stand	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 determined	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 determined	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 determined	nsubj
24	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 became	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 avenge	mark
26	avenge	avenge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 determined	xcomp
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 avenge	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 avenge	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	Red Sir			angry property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	not stand	would	brothers = brother		attention	for Red; always property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at attention=Location
3	determine	past	Red				vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	avenge	to-infinitive	Red not said here	Red		on brothers = brother	tree rules

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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