The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 93

Makoma was so delighted with the little meadow that he sat down under a large tree and removing the sack from his shoulder, took out all the giants and set them before him. '

Who acts: Makoma · What happens: be, sit down, remove, take out, set · To what, where: large tree, sack, shoulder, giants

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 (Makoma), 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	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 delighted	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 delighted	advmod
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 meadow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 meadow	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 meadow	amod
8	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 delighted	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 sat	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	advcl
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 sat	compound:prt
13	under	under	ADP	_	16 tree	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tree	det
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tree	amod
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 removing	cc
18	removing	remove	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 tree	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sack	det
20	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 removing	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 shoulder	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 shoulder	nmod:poss
23	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 removing	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sat	conj
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 took	compound:prt
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 giants	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 giants	det
29	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 took	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 set	cc
31	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 took	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 set	obj
33	before	before	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 set	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 delighted	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Makoma				with the little meadow; delighted property	tree rules
2	sit down	past	Makoma		a large tree			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
3	remove	gerund	Makoma not said here	the sack	Makoma's shoulder			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sack=Theme from shoulder=Source
4	take out	past	Makoma not said here	all giants				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme
5	set	infinitive	Makoma not said here	giants = giant		before Makoma		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme before he=Destination

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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