The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 21

Then, to his vexation, the man found that he had left his axe behind him, and he knew that if it lay all night in the mud it would become rusty and useless.

Who acts: man, axe, maiden · What happens: find, leave, know, lie, become, vex · To what, where: axe, mud · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, axe, maiden), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 found	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 vexation	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 vexation	nmod:poss
5	vexation	vexation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 vexation	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	nsubj
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 left	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 left	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 left	aux
13	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 found	ccomp
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 axe	nmod:poss
15	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 left	obj
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 left	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 knew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 knew	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 knew	nsubj
21	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 found	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 become	mark
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 lay	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 lay	nsubj
25	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 become	advcl
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 night	det
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lay	obl:unmarked
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 mud	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mud	det
30	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lay	obl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 become	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 become	aux
33	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 knew	ccomp
34	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 become	xcomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 useless	cc
36	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 rusty	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	the man			then	to maiden's vexation	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	leave	past · perfect	man	man's axe			behind maiden	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent axe=Theme behind he=Location
3	know	past	man					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	lie a condition, not said to happen	past	axe		the mud	night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mud=Location
5	become	would	axe				rusty property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	vex		maiden					nom vexation «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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