The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 98

Esben also told how everything had happened, and how Sir Red had done the brothers all the ill he could devise because he was envious of them.

Who acts: Esben, everything, Sir · What happens: tell, happen, do, devise, be · To what, where: brothers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Esben, everything, Sir), 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	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 happened	advmod
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 happened	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 happened	aux
7	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 done	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 done	cc
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 done	advmod
11	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 done	nsubj
12	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Sir	flat
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 brothers	det
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 done	obj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 ill	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ill	det
19	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 done	advcl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 devise	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 devise	aux
22	devise	devise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 envious	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 envious	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 envious	cop
26	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 devise	ccomp
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 envious	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Esben			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	happen	past · perfect	everything			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	past · perfect	Sir	the brothers		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Eventuality
4	devise	could	Sir			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	Sir		of brothers = brother; envious property	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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