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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 19

Now these words were carried by a messenger to the wife of Oireal, and she made haste and sent a ship to Old Bergen to bear away her son before the Red Gruagach should take the head off him.

Who acts: messenger, wife, Red Gruagach · What happens: carry, make, send, bear away, take · To what, where: words, wife, haste, ship, Old Bergen, son

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 (messenger, wife, Red Gruagach), 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

advmoddetnsubj:passaux:passcasedetoblcasedetoblcasenmodpunctccnsubjparataxisobjccconjdetobjcaseamodoblmarkadvcladvmodnmod:possobjmarkdetflatnsubjauxadvcldetobjcaseoblpunctrootNowADVtheseDETwordsNOUNwereAUXcarriedVERBbyADPaDETmessengerNOUNtoADPtheDETwifeNOUNofADPOirealPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJshePRONmadeVERBhasteNOUNandCCONJsentVERBaDETshipNOUNtoADPOldADJBergenPROPNtoPARTbearVERBawayADVherPRONsonNOUNbeforeSCONJtheDETRedPROPNGruagachPROPNshouldAUXtakeVERBtheDETheadNOUNoffADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem5 carriedadvmod
2thesethisDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem3 wordsdet
3wordswordNOUNNumber=Plur5 carriednsubj:pass
4werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 carriedaux:pass
5carriedcarryVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
6bybyADP_8 messengercase
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art8 messengerdet
8messengermessengerNOUNNumber=Sing5 carriedobl
9totoADP_11 wifecase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 wifedet
11wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing5 carriedobl
12ofofADP_13 Oirealcase
13OirealOirealPROPNNumber=Sing11 wifenmod
14,,PUNCT_17 madepunct
15andandCCONJ_17 madecc
16sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 madensubj
17mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 carriedparataxis
18hastehasteNOUNNumber=Sing17 madeobj
19andandCCONJ_20 sentcc
20sentsendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 madeconj
21aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 shipdet
22shipshipNOUNNumber=Sing20 sentobj
23totoADP_25 Bergencase
24OldoldADJDegree=Pos25 Bergenamod
25BergenBergenPROPNNumber=Sing20 sentobl
26totoPART_27 bearmark
27bearbearVERBVerbForm=Inf20 sentadvcl
28awayawayADV_27 bearadvmod
29herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 sonnmod:poss
30sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing27 bearobj
31beforebeforeSCONJ_36 takemark
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 Gruagachdet
33RedRedPROPNNumber=Sing34 Gruagachflat
34GruagachGruagachPROPNNumber=Sing36 takensubj
35shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin36 takeaux
36taketakeVERBVerbForm=Inf27 bearadvcl
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 headdet
38headheadNOUNNumber=Sing36 takeobj
39offoffADP_40 himcase
40himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs36 takeobl
41..PUNCT_5 carriedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1carrypast · passivea messengerthis wordsthe wife of Oirealnowvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to wife=Destination
2makepastwifehastevn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product
3sendpastwife not said herea shipOld Bergenvn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ship=Theme to bergen=Destination
4bear awayto-infinitivewife not said herewife's sonaway propertyvn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
5takeshouldthe Red Gruagachthe headoff Bergenvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent head=Theme off he=Initial_Location

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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