The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 56

Now as she lay outside on a bed, it turned out that the flies became very troublesome, and the weaver looked round for something to drive them away with; and as he had been told to pick up the nearest stone to drive the beasts away from the flock, he thought he would this time show how cleverly he could obey orders.

Who acts: mother, it, flies, weaver · What happens: lie, turn out, become, look round, drive away, tell · To what, where: bed, flies, Weaver, nearest stone, beasts, orders · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, it, flies, weaver), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lay	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 lay	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	outside	outside	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 bed	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bed	det
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 turned	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 turned	nsubj
11	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 turned	compound:prt
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 became	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 flies	det
15	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 became	nsubj
16	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 turned	advcl
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 troublesome	advmod
18	troublesome	troublesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 became	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 looked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 looked	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 weaver	det
22	weaver	weaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 looked	nsubj
23	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	conj
24	round	round	ADV	_	23 looked	advmod
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 something	case
26	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 looked	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 drive	mark
28	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 something	acl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 drive	obj
30	away	away	ADV	_	28 drive	advmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	28 drive	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 told	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 told	cc
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 told	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 told	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 told	aux
37	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 told	aux:pass
38	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lay	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 pick	mark
40	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 told	xcomp
41	up	up	ADP	_	40 pick	compound:prt
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 stone	det
43	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	44 stone	amod
44	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 pick	obj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 drive	mark
46	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 stone	acl
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 beasts	det
48	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 drive	obj
49	away	away	ADV	_	46 drive	advmod
50	from	from	ADP	_	52 flock	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 flock	det
52	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 away	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 thought	punct
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 thought	nsubj
55	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	conj
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 show	nsubj
57	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 show	aux
58	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	59 time	det
59	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 show	obl:unmarked
60	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 thought	ccomp
61	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	62 cleverly	advmod
62	cleverly	cleverly	ADV	_	65 obey	advmod
63	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 obey	nsubj
64	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	65 obey	aux
65	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 show	ccomp
66	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 obey	obj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	mother		a bed	now	outside property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location
2	turn out	past	it					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	become	past	the flies				troublesome property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	look round	past	the weaver				for something; round property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for something=Theme
5	drive away	to-infinitive	the weaver not said here	flies = fly			away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory
6	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		Weaver				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
7	pick up not said to happen	to-infinitive	Weaver not said here	the nearest stone				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic
8	drive	to-infinitive	Weaver not said here	the beasts			away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beast=Trajectory
9	think speech: other	past	Weaver					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
10	show	would	Weaver			time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
11	obey	could	Weaver	orders			cleverly property	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=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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