The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 6

To make matters worse, word was brought to him that the Fairies asked on the first page had already arrived and were waiting impatiently in the Great Hall, and grumbling that nobody was there to receive them.

Who acts: Fairies, nobody · What happens: make, bring, ask, arrive, wait, grumble · To what, where: matters, word, son, first page, Great Hall, Fairies · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (Fairies, nobody), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 brought	punct
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brought	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 brought	aux:pass
8	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 make	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 brought	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 asked	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Fairies	det
13	Fairies	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 asked	nsubj
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 brought	advcl
15	on	on	SCONJ	_	21 arrived	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 page	det
17	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 page	amod
18	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 arrived	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 arrived	aux
20	already	already	ADV	_	21 arrived	advmod
21	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 asked	ccomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 waiting	cc
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 waiting	aux
24	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 arrived	conj
25	impatiently	impatiently	ADV	_	24 waiting	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 Hall	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Hall	det
28	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Hall	amod
29	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 waiting	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 grumbling	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 grumbling	cc
32	grumbling	grumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 arrived	advcl
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 there	mark
34	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	36 there	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 there	cop
36	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 grumbling	ccomp
37	to	to	PART	_	38 receive	mark
38	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 there	advcl
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 receive	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		matters			bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset matter=Product
2	bring	past · passive		word	son			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination
3	ask speech: ask	past	the Fairies					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	arrive	past · perfect · passive		the first page				tree rules
5	wait	past · progressive				the Great Hall	impatiently property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hall=Location
6	grumble speech: other	gerund						vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	nobody				there property	tree rules
8	receive	to-infinitive	nobody not said here	Fairies = fairy				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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