The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 125

The falcon remained where he was, but the cat lay down outside the principal gate, causing terrible excitement among the rats.

Who acts: falcon, cat · What happens: remain, be, lay down, cause · To what, where: principal gate, terrible excitement

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 (falcon, cat), 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 falcon	det
2	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remained	nsubj
3	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 was	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 was	nsubj
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remained	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lay	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 lay	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lay	nsubj
11	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 remained	conj
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 lay	advmod
13	outside	outside	ADP	_	16 gate	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gate	det
15	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 gate	amod
16	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lay	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 causing	punct
18	causing	cause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 lay	advcl
19	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 excitement	amod
20	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 causing	obj
21	among	among	ADP	_	23 rats	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rats	det
23	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 causing	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remain	past	the falcon				tree rules
2	be	past	falcon				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lay down	infinitive	the cat		the principal gate	down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent outside gate=Destination
4	cause	gerund	the cat not said here	terrible excitement		among the rats	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition excitement=Patient

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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