The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 92

In all the waggon-loads there was not one piece of linen the tenth part of which would go through the ring, and the two elder brothers, who had at first sneered at their youngest brother for returning with no baggage, began to feel rather small.

Who acts: tenth part, two elder brothers · What happens: go, have, sneer, return, begin, feel · To what, where: ring, waggon loads

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tenth part, two elder brothers), 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	In	in	ADP	_	6 loads	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 loads	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 loads	det
4	waggon	waggon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loads	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 waggon	punct
6	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 began	obl
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 loads	acl:relcl
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 piece	advmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 piece	nummod
11	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 linen	case
13	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 piece	nmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 part	det
15	tenth	tenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 part	amod
16	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 linen	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 go	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 go	aux
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 part	acl:relcl
21	through	through	ADP	_	23 ring	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ring	det
23	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 brothers	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 brothers	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 brothers	det
27	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 brothers	nummod
28	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 brothers	amod
29	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 piece	appos
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 had	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 had	nsubj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 brothers	acl:relcl
33	at	at	SCONJ	_	35 sneered	mark
34	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	35 sneered	advmod
35	sneered	sneer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 had	xcomp
36	at	at	ADP	_	39 brother	case
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 brother	nmod:poss
38	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 brother	amod
39	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sneered	obl
40	for	for	SCONJ	_	41 returning	mark
41	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 sneered	advcl
42	with	with	ADP	_	44 baggage	case
43	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	44 baggage	det
44	baggage	baggage	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 returning	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 loads	punct
46	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
47	to	to	PART	_	48 feel	mark
48	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 began	xcomp
49	rather	rather	ADV	_	50 small	advmod
50	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 feel	xcomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	46 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go	would	the tenth part	the ring		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through ring=Initial_Location
2	have	past	the two elder brothers			tree rules
3	sneer	participle	the two elder brothers not said here		at brothers's youngest brother; first property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	return	gerund	the two elder brothers not said here		with no baggage	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	begin	past		all waggon loads		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	feel	to-infinitive			small property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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