The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 82

There was great mourning in the hut for many days, but at length the son rose up, and calling to his greyhound, his cat and his falcon, he left the house saying that he would bring back something for dinner.

Who acts: great mourning, mourning · What happens: be, rise up, call, leave, say, bring back · To what, where: length, cat, greyhound, house, something · 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 (great mourning, mourning), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mourning	amod
4	mourning	mourning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hut	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hut	det
7	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mourning	nmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 days	case
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 days	amod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hut	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rose	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 rose	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 length	case
14	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rose	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 son	det
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 length	nmod:unmarked
17	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 rose	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 calling	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 calling	cc
21	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 rose	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 greyhound	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 greyhound	nmod:poss
24	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 calling	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cat	punct
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 cat	nmod:poss
27	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 calling	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 falcon	cc
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 falcon	nmod:poss
30	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cat	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 left	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 left	nsubj
33	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 house	det
35	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 left	obj
36	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 left	advcl
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 bring	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 bring	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 bring	aux
40	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 saying	ccomp
41	back	back	ADV	_	40 bring	advmod
42	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	40 bring	obj
43	for	for	ADP	_	44 dinner	case
44	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 bring	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	great mourning in the hut for many days			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rise up	past	great mourning in the hut for many days not said here			length the son		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at length=Location
3	call	gerund	great mourning in the hut for many days not said here	mourning's cat and mourning's falcon	mourning's greyhound			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cat=Topic to greyhound=Recipient
4	leave	past	mourning	the house				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
5	say speech: assert	gerund	mourning not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	bring back	would	mourning	something			for dinner	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent something=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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