The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 8

And he shut them; and when he opened them again the camel that he had wished for was standing before him, while the festal robes of a desert prince hung from his shoulders.

Who acts: man, festal robes · What happens: shut, open, wish, stand, hang · To what, where: eyes, shoulders

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 (man, festal robes), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 shut	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shut	nsubj
3	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shut	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 opened	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 opened	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 opened	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 opened	nsubj
9	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shut	parataxis
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 opened	obj
11	again	again	ADV	_	13 camel	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 camel	det
13	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 opened	obl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 wished	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wished	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wished	aux
17	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 opened	advcl
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 standing	mark
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 standing	aux
20	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 wished	advcl
21	before	before	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 standing	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hung	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 hung	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 robes	det
26	festal	festal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 robes	amod
27	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 hung	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 prince	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 prince	det
30	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 prince	compound
31	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 robes	nmod
32	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 opened	conj
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 shoulders	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 shoulders	nmod:poss
35	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 hung	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut	past	man	eyes = eye				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	open	past	man	eyes = eye			the camel obl	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
3	wish	past · perfect	man					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	stand	past · progressive	man not said here			before man		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
5	hang	past	the festal robes of a desert prince		man's shoulders			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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