The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 20

When night arrived he declared he could go no further, but would spend it on the banks of a river.

Who acts: night, falcon · What happens: arrive, declare, go, spend · To what, where: burden, banks

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 (night, falcon), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 arrived	advmod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrived	nsubj
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 go	advcl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 declared	nsubj
5	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arrived	conj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 go	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	no	no	ADV	_	10 further	advmod
10	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 go	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spend	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 spend	cc
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 spend	aux
14	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 spend	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 banks	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 banks	det
18	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 spend	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 river	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 river	det
21	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 banks	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	night			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	declare speech: other	past	falcon			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	go	could	falcon		far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	spend	would	falcon not said here	burden	on the banks of a river goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Asset on bank=Goal

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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