The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 115

The bird had to go so high that he did not return for some hours; but he told his master that the ogre was lying asleep in a splendid palace in a far country on the shores of the sea.

Who acts: bird, procession, ogre · What happens: have, go, not return, tell, lie · To what, where: master, splendid palace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, procession, ogre), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 high	advmod
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	xcomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 return	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 return	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 return	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 return	advmod
12	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 high	advcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 hours	case
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 hours	det
15	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 return	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 told	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 told	nsubj
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 master	nmod:poss
21	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 told	iobj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 lying	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ogre	det
24	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lying	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 lying	aux
26	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 told	advcl
27	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 lying	xcomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 palace	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 palace	det
30	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 palace	amod
31	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lying	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 country	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 country	det
34	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 country	amod
35	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 palace	nmod
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 shores	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 shores	det
38	shores	shore	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lying	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 sea	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sea	det
41	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 shores	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the bird					tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	the bird not said here				high property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not return	past · do-support	procession			hour		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	procession	procession's master				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient
5	lie	past · progressive	the ogre		a splendid palace in a far country		on the shores of the sea; asleep property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in palace=Location

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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