The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 37

The old people next door were naturally very much put out when they learned the fate of their mortar, and were not at all comforted by the explanations and excuses made by their neighbour.

Who acts: old people, people · What happens: be, put out, learn, comfort, make, fate · To what, where: all, fate, excuses, mortar

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old people, people), 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	3 people	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 put	nsubj
4	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 door	amod
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 people	nmod
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 put	advcl
7	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	6 were	advmod
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 put	advmod
10	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 put	compound:prt
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 learned	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 learned	nsubj
14	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 put	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fate	det
16	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 learned	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 mortar	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mortar	nmod:poss
19	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fate	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 all	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 all	cc
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 all	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 all	advmod
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 all	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 put	obj
26	comforted	comfort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 all	acl
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 explanations	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 explanations	det
29	explanations	explanation	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 comforted	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 excuses	cc
31	excuses	excuse	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 explanations	conj
32	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 excuses	acl
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 neighbour	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 neighbour	nmod:poss
35	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 made	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	be	past	the old people next door not said here		naturally property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put out	infinitive	the old people next door	all		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent all=Goal
3	learn	past	people	the fate of people's mortar		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Topic
4	comfort	participle			by the explanations and excuses	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	make	participle		excuses not said here	by people's neighbour	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	fate			people's mortar		nom fate «event transitive»: of=patient

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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