The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 64

So mother and daughter carried it proudly upstairs and put it on a shelf over the fireplace; then, untying the key from the handle, they opened the box.

Who acts: mother, jewels · What happens: carry, put, untie, open · To what, where: place, shelf, key, box

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 (mother, jewels), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 carried	advmod
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 daughter	cc
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mother	conj
5	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 carried	obj
7	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	5 carried	advmod
8	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	5 carried	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 put	cc
10	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 carried	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 shelf	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 shelf	det
14	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 fireplace	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fireplace	det
17	fireplace	fireplace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 untying	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 untying	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 untying	punct
21	untying	untie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 carried	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 key	det
23	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 untying	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 handle	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 handle	det
26	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 untying	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 opened	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 opened	nsubj
29	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carried	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 box	det
31	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 opened	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	mother and daughter	place			proudly, upstairs property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	put	infinitive	mother and daughter not said here	place	a shelf		over the fireplace	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shelf=Destination
3	untie	gerund	mother and daughter not said here	the key		then	from the handle	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent key=Patient from handle=Co-Patient
4	open	past	jewels = jewel	the box				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=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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