The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 42

And his mother called the head men of the town, and when they had come he led them down to a deep black pool in the river where all the fierce crocodiles lived.

Who acts: mother, men, Senna, fierce crocodiles · What happens: call, come, lead down, live · To what, where: head men, men, deep black pool · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mother, men, Senna, fierce crocodiles), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 called	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 men	det
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 men	compound
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 called	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 town	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 town	det
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 men	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 come	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 come	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 come	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
16	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 called	parataxis
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 led	nsubj
18	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 come	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 led	obj
20	down	down	ADP	_	18 led	compound:prt
21	to	to	ADP	_	25 pool	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 pool	det
23	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pool	amod
24	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pool	amod
25	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 led	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 river	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 river	det
28	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pool	nmod
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 lived	advmod
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 crocodiles	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 crocodiles	det
32	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 crocodiles	amod
33	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 lived	nsubj
34	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 river	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	Senna's mother		the head men of the town		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
2	come	past · perfect	men = man				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lead down	past	Senna	men = man		a deep black pool in the river	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to pool=Destination
4	live	past	all fierce crocodiles				vn exist-47.1-1 «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 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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