The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 77

For a few years he stayed there in peace, and then the wife of Iarlaid his uncle sent for him.

Who acts: Manus, wife · What happens: stay, send · To what, where: peace

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 (Manus, wife), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 years	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 years	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stayed	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stayed	nsubj
6	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 stayed	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 peace	case
9	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stayed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sent	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sent	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 sent	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wife	det
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Iarlaid	case
16	Iarlaid	Iarlaid	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 wife	nmod
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 uncle	nmod:poss
18	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	nsubj
19	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stayed	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sent	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	Manus			peace; there	year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location
2	send	past	the wife of Iarlaid				then	for Manus	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: 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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