The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 44

And taking the stone in his mouth he carried it to the place where the cat was waiting for him.

Who acts: falcon, cat · What happens: take, carry, wait · To what, where: stone, mouth, place

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 (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 taking	cc
2	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 carried	csubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stone	det
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 taking	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 mouth	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouth	nmod:poss
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 taking	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 carried	nsubj
9	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 carried	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 place	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 place	det
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carried	obl
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 waiting	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cat	det
16	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 waiting	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 waiting	aux
18	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 place	acl:relcl
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 waiting	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	gerund		the stone	falcon's mouth		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stone=Value in mouth=Location
2	carry	past	falcon	stone	the place		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to place=Destination
3	wait	past · progressive	the cat			for falcon	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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