The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 47

Now in the front row of the spectators sat the respected and popular Mayor of the village, who was much put out by what he considered nothing but a foolish trick.

Who acts: clown · What happens: sit, put out, consider · To what, where: respected Mayor, front row, village, nothing

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clown), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 sat	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 row	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 row	det
4	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 row	amod
5	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 spectators	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spectators	det
8	spectators	spectator	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 row	nmod
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Mayor	det
11	respected	respected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Mayor	amod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 popular	cc
13	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 respected	conj
14	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 village	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 village	det
17	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Mayor	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 put	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 put	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 put	aux:pass
21	much	much	ADV	_	22 put	advmod
22	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 village	acl:relcl
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 put	compound:prt
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 what	case
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 put	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 considered	nsubj
27	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 what	acl:relcl
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 considered	obj
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 trick	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 trick	det
31	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 trick	amod
32	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 nothing	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past		the respected Mayor of the village	the front row of the spectators	now		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent mayor=Theme in row=Location
2	put out	past · passive		the village			by the village	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme by what=Destination
3	consider	past	clown	nothing				vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent nothing=Attribute

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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