The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 19

‘Grieved as I was over the theft, I did not punish the gardener, of whose fidelity I was well assured, but I determined to pluck off all the fruit in the following year before it was ripe, as I had not much belief in the magician’s warning.

Who acts: I, fruit, magician · What happens: grieve, be, not punish, assure, determine, pluck off · To what, where: theft, gardener, I, fruit, much belief, warning

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fruit, magician), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Grieved	punct
2	Grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 punish	advcl
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 theft	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 theft	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 theft	cop
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 theft	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 theft	det
8	theft	theft	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Grieved	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 punish	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 punish	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 punish	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 punish	advmod
13	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gardener	det
15	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 punish	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fidelity	punct
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 fidelity	case
18	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	19 fidelity	nmod:poss
19	fidelity	fidelity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 punish	parataxis
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 assured	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 assured	aux:pass
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 assured	advmod
23	assured	assure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 fidelity	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 determined	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 determined	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 determined	nsubj
27	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 assured	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 pluck	mark
29	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 determined	xcomp
30	off	off	ADP	_	29 pluck	compound:prt
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 fruit	det:predet
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fruit	det
33	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pluck	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 year	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 year	det
36	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 year	amod
37	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pluck	obl
38	before	before	SCONJ	_	41 ripe	mark
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 ripe	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 ripe	cop
41	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 pluck	advcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 had	punct
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 had	mark
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 had	nsubj
45	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 determined	conj
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 much	advmod
47	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 belief	amod
48	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 had	obj
49	in	in	ADP	_	53 warning	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 magician	det
51	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 warning	nmod:poss
52	’s	's	PART	_	51 magician	case
53	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 had	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 punish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grieve	participle	I not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	I		the theft			tree rules
3	not punish	past · do-support	I	the gardener				vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gardener=Patient
4	assure	past · passive		I			well property	vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	determine	past	I					vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	pluck off	to-infinitive	I not said here	all fruit		year		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
7	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is	past	fruit				ripe property	tree rules
9	have	past	I	much belief	the magician's warning			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belief=Patient
10	warn		the magician					nom warning «communication transitive»: poss=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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