The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 11

But the cub rolled itself up in the cloth; so Manus picked them both up, and carried them with him to Old Bergen.

Who acts: cub, Manus · What happens: roll up, pick up, carry · To what, where: cub, cloth, ways, Old Bergen

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cub, Manus), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 rolled	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cub	det
3	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rolled	nsubj
4	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 rolled	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 rolled	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 cloth	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cloth	det
9	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rolled	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 picked	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 picked	advmod
12	Manus	Manus	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 picked	nsubj
13	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rolled	parataxis
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 picked	obj
15	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	13 picked	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	13 picked	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 carried	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 carried	cc
19	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 picked	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 carried	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 carried	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 Bergen	case
24	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Bergen	amod
25	Bergen	Bergen	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 carried	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rolled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	roll up	past	the cub	cub		the cloth		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent itself=Theme in cloth=Trajectory
2	pick up	past	Manus	ways = way				tree rules
3	carry	past	Manus not said here	ways = way	Old Bergen		with Manus	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to bergen=Destination

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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