The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 13

And the wife of Iarlaid came to meet him, and a brown dog, small but full of courage, came with her.

Who acts: wife · What happens: come, meet · To what, where: Manus

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 (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 came	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Iarlaid	case
5	Iarlaid	Iarlaid	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wife	nmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 meet	mark
8	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	xcomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 meet	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 small	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 small	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 dog	det
13	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dog	amod
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 small	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 small	punct
16	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 came	conj
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 full	cc
18	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 small	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 courage	case
20	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 full	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 came	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the wife of Iarlaid			tree rules
2	meet	to-infinitive	the wife of Iarlaid not said here	Manus		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
3	come	past	the wife of Iarlaid not said here		with dog	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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