The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 24

Wanderers, travellers, shipwrecked men, merchants, and wives stolen from alien tribes have diffused the stories; gipsies and Jews have passed them about; Roman soldiers of many different races, moved here and there about the Empire, have trafficked in them.

Who acts: Jews, Roman soldiers · What happens: shipwreck, steal, diffuse, pass, move, traffic · To what, where: wives, alien tribes, stories, Wanderers

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (Jews, Roman soldiers), 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	Wanderers	wanderer	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 trafficked	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 travellers	punct
3	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wanderers	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 men	punct
5	shipwrecked	shipwreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 men	amod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wanderers	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 merchants	punct
8	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wanderers	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 diffused	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 diffused	cc
11	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 diffused	nsubj:pass
12	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 wives	acl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 tribes	case
14	alien	alien	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tribes	amod
15	tribes	tribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stolen	obl
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 diffused	aux
17	diffused	diffuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Wanderers	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stories	det
19	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 diffused	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 gipsies	punct
21	gipsies	gipsy	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stories	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 passed	cc
23	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 passed	nsubj
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 passed	aux
25	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 diffused	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 passed	obj
27	about	about	ADP	_	25 passed	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 soldiers	punct
29	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 soldiers	amod
30	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 moved	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 races	case
32	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 races	amod
33	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 races	amod
34	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 soldiers	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 moved	punct
36	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wanderers	acl:relcl
37	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 moved	advmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 there	cc
39	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 here	conj
40	about	about	ADP	_	42 Empire	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Empire	det
42	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 moved	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wanderers	punct
44	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 trafficked	aux
45	trafficked	traffic	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 them	case
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 trafficked	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	45 trafficked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shipwreck	participle					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	steal	participle		wives not said here	alien tribes		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	diffuse	present · perfect · passive		wives			tree rules
4	pass	present · perfect	Jews	stories = story			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory
5	move	past	Roman soldiers of many different races	Wanderers and travellers and shipwrecked men and merchants not said here	here	about the Empire	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wanderer=Theme
6	traffic	present · perfect · passive		Wanderers and travellers and shipwrecked men and merchants		in stories = story	tree rules

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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