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The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 10

However, the fact remained that strange things did happen there, and the King of Sweden, to whom this part of the country belonged, more than once gave orders to cut down the haunted wood, but there was no one with courage enough to obey his commands.

Who acts: fact, strange things, King, one · What happens: remain, happen, belong, give, cut down, haunt · To what, where: more, orders, haunted wood, commands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fact, strange things, King, one), 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

advmodpunctdetnsubjmarkamodnsubjauxadvcladvmodpunctccdetnsubjcasenmodpunctcaseobldetacl:relclcasedetnmodconjpunctobjmarkadvmodadvclobjmarkxcompcompound:prtdetamodobjpunctccexplparataxisdetnsubjcasenmodadvmodmarkaclnmod:possobjpunctrootHoweverADV,PUNCTtheDETfactNOUNremainedVERBthatSCONJstrangeADJthingsNOUNdidAUXhappenVERBthereADV,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETKingPROPNofADPSwedenPROPN,PUNCTtoADPwhomPRONthisDETpartNOUNofADPtheDETcountryNOUNbelongedVERB,PUNCTmoreADJthanSCONJonceADVgaveVERBordersNOUNtoPARTcutVERBdownADPtheDEThauntedVERBwoodNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJtherePRONwasVERBnoDEToneNOUNwithADPcourageNOUNenoughADVtoPARTobeyVERBhisPRONcommandsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HoweverhoweverADV_5 remainedadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Howeverpunct
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 factdet
4factfactNOUNNumber=Sing5 remainednsubj
5remainedremainVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6thatthatSCONJ_10 happenmark
7strangestrangeADJDegree=Pos8 thingsamod
8thingsthingNOUNNumber=Plur10 happennsubj
9diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 happenaux
10happenhappenVERBVerbForm=Inf5 remainedadvcl
11therethereADVPronType=Dem10 happenadvmod
12,,PUNCT_26 belongedpunct
13andandCCONJ_26 belongedcc
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 Kingdet
15KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing26 belongednsubj
16ofofADP_17 Swedencase
17SwedenSwedenPROPNNumber=Sing15 Kingnmod
18,,PUNCT_22 partpunct
19totoADP_20 whomcase
20whomwhomPRONPronType=Rel22 partobl
21thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem22 partdet
22partpartNOUNNumber=Sing15 Kingacl:relcl
23ofofADP_25 countrycase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 countrydet
25countrycountryNOUNNumber=Sing22 partnmod
26belongedbelongVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 remainedconj
27,,PUNCT_28 morepunct
28moremoreADJDegree=Cmp26 belongedobj
29thanthanSCONJ_31 gavemark
30onceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult31 gaveadvmod
31gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 moreadvcl
32ordersorderNOUNNumber=Plur31 gaveobj
33totoPART_34 cutmark
34cutcutVERBVerbForm=Inf31 gavexcomp
35downdownADP_34 cutcompound:prt
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 wooddet
37hauntedhauntVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass38 woodamod
38woodwoodNOUNNumber=Sing34 cutobj
39,,PUNCT_42 waspunct
40butbutCCONJ_42 wascc
41theretherePRONPronType=Dem42 wasexpl
42wasbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 remainedparataxis
43nonoDETPronType=Neg44 onedet
44oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing42 wasnsubj
45withwithADP_46 couragecase
46couragecourageNOUNNumber=Sing44 onenmod
47enoughenoughADV_46 courageadvmod
48totoPART_49 obeymark
49obeyobeyVERBVerbForm=Inf44 oneacl
50hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs51 commandsnmod:poss
51commandscommandNOUNNumber=Plur49 obeyobj
52..PUNCT_5 remainedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1remainpastthe facthowever propertyvn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2happenpast · do-supportstrange thingstherevn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3belongpastthe King of Swedenmoretree rules
4givepastthe King of Sweden not said hereordersonce propertytree rules
5cut downto-infinitivethe King of Sweden not said herethe haunted woodvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product
6hauntparticiplevn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7bepastno one with couragetherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8obeyto-infinitiveno one with courage not said hereKing's commandsvn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme
9commandKingnom command «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 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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