The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 18

'Your counsel is good,' replied the cat, smiling to itself; and putting the stone in her mouth she went off to seek the falcon.

Who acts: counsel, cat · What happens: be, reply, smile, put, go off, seek · To what, where: cat, counsel, stone, mouth, falcon

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (counsel, 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 counsel	nmod:poss
3	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 good	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 good	cop
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct
8	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 good	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 replied	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 smiling	punct
12	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 replied	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 itself	case
14	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 smiling	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
17	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 went	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stone	det
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 putting	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 mouth	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mouth	nmod:poss
22	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 putting	obl
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 went	nsubj
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 good	conj
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 went	compound:prt
26	to	to	PART	_	27 seek	mark
27	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 went	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 falcon	det
29	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seek	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your counsel				good property	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past		the cat				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic
3	smile	gerund			counsel			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to itself=Recipient
4	put	gerund	cat not said here	the stone		cat's mouth		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme in mouth=Destination
5	go off	past	cat					vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
6	seek	to-infinitive	cat not said here	the falcon				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent falcon=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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