The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 56

For themselves, they remained hidden and disguised in the town, which was really rather clever of them; but very soon afterwards Badi-al-Zaman died of vexation and annoyance at the loss of the promised treasure, and then they went back to their cottage to wait for news of their children.

Who acts: children, town, Badi · What happens: remain, hide, disguise, be, die, promise · To what, where: loss

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, town, Badi), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 themselves	case
2	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 remained	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 themselves	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 remained	nsubj
5	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 remained	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 disguised	cc
8	disguised	disguise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 hidden	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 town	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 town	det
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 disguised	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 clever	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 clever	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 clever	cop
15	really	really	ADV	_	17 clever	advmod
16	rather	rather	ADV	_	17 clever	advmod
17	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 town	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 clever	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 died	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 died	cc
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 soon	advmod
23	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 afterwards	advmod
24	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	30 died	advmod
25	Badi	Badi	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 died	nsubj
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Badi	punct
27	al	Al	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Badi	flat
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 Zaman	punct
29	Zaman	Zaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Badi	flat
30	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remained	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 vexation	case
32	vexation	vexation	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 died	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 annoyance	cc
34	annoyance	annoyance	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 vexation	conj
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 loss	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 loss	det
37	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 died	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 treasure	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 treasure	det
40	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 treasure	amod
41	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 loss	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 went	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 went	cc
44	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	46 went	advmod
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 went	nsubj
46	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remained	conj
47	back	back	ADV	_	46 went	advmod
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 cottage	case
49	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 cottage	nmod:poss
50	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 went	obl
51	to	to	PART	_	52 wait	mark
52	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 went	advcl
53	for	for	ADP	_	54 news	case
54	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 wait	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 children	case
56	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 children	nmod:poss
57	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 news	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	children = child			for children = child	tree rules
2	hide	participle	children = child not said here				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	disguise	participle	children = child not said here			in the town	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in town=Theme
4	is	past	the town			of children = child; clever property	tree rules
5	die	past	Badi	the loss of the promised treasure		of vexation and annoyance; afterwards property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of vexation=Causer
6	promise speech: promise	participle					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	go back	past	children = child		then	to children's cottage result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cottage=Result
8	wait	to-infinitive	children = child not said here			for news of children's children	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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