The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 11

Some turned up, too, who were mere adventurers, and tried to deceive the old king with imitation pearls; but he was not to be taken in so easily, and they were soon sent about their business.

Who acts: Some · What happens: turn up, be, try, deceive, not take, send · To what, where: mere adventurers, old king, king, pearls

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 turned	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 adventurers	punct
5	too	too	ADV	_	10 adventurers	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 adventurers	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 adventurers	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 adventurers	cop
9	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 adventurers	amod
10	adventurers	adventurer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turned	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tried	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tried	cc
13	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 deceive	mark
15	deceive	deceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tried	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 king	amod
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 deceive	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 pearls	case
20	imitation	imitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pearls	compound
21	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 deceive	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 taken	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 taken	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 taken	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 taken	aux:pass
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 taken	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	29 taken	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 taken	aux:pass
29	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 turned	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 easily	case
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 easily	advmod
32	easily	easily	ADV	_	29 taken	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 sent	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 sent	cc
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 sent	nsubj:pass
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 sent	aux:pass
37	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 sent	advmod
38	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 taken	conj
39	about	about	ADP	_	41 business	case
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 business	nmod:poss
41	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sent	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn up	past	Some			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		mere adventurers		tree rules
3	try	past	Some not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	deceive not said to happen	to-infinitive	Some not said here	the old king	with imitation pearls	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient
5	not take	past · passive		king		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in easily=Location
6	send	past · passive		pearls = pearl	about pearls's business; soon property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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