The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 9

Well, what they have to do is this: To-night they must burrow under the walls of the castle and go up to the room were an ogre lies asleep.

Who acts: this, they, ogre · What happens: be, have, do, burrow, go up, lie · To what, where: walls

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 (this, they, ogre), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	xcomp
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 what	nsubj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 burrow	punct
11	To	to	ADP	_	13 night	case
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 To	punct
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 burrow	obl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 burrow	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 burrow	aux
16	burrow	burrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 what	parataxis
17	under	under	ADP	_	19 walls	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 walls	det
19	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 burrow	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 castle	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 castle	det
22	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 walls	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 go	cc
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 burrow	conj
25	up	up	ADV	_	24 go	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 room	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 room	det
28	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 ogre	det
31	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lies	nsubj
32	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
33	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lies	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this				tree rules
2	have	present	they				tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	they not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	burrow	must	they	the walls of the castle	night		vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent under wall=Location
5	go up	infinitive	they not said here			to the room	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	lie	present	a ogre			asleep property	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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