The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 39

And when the sparrows came to beg for some corn, they fared no better than the cows and the cats, for the girl threw her shoes at them, till they flew in a fright to the woods, and took shelter amongst the trees.

Who acts: sparrows, girl, cows · What happens: come, beg, fare, throw, fly, take · To what, where: shoes, fright, shelter

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sparrows, girl, cows), 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	_	13 fared	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sparrows	det
4	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fared	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 beg	mark
7	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 corn	case
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 corn	det
10	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beg	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fared	nsubj
13	fared	fare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	no	no	ADV	_	15 better	advmod
15	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 fared	xcomp
16	than	than	ADP	_	18 cows	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cows	det
18	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 better	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cats	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cats	det
21	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 cows	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 threw	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 threw	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 girl	det
25	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 threw	nsubj
26	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fared	parataxis
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 shoes	nmod:poss
28	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 threw	obj
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 threw	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 flew	punct
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	34 flew	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 flew	nsubj
34	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 threw	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 fright	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 fright	det
37	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 flew	obl
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 woods	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 woods	det
40	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 flew	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 took	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 took	cc
43	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fared	conj
44	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 took	obj
45	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	47 trees	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 trees	det
47	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 took	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 fared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the sparrows				tree rules
2	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	the sparrows not said here			for some corn	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for corn=Topic
3	fare	past	sparrows = sparrow			good property	tree rules
4	throw	past	the girl	girl's shoes		at cows = cow	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme at they=Destination
5	fly	past	cows = cow		a fright	to the woods	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fright=Location
6	take	past	sparrows = sparrow not said here	shelter		amongst the trees	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=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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