The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 32

So home they went to their mother and youngest brother, of whom they thought little, because he made himself useful about the house, and looked after the hens, and milked the cow. '

Who acts: words, story · What happens: go, think, make, look, milk · To what, where: story, cow

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 (words, story), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	home	home	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 mother	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 brother	cc
9	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 brother	amod
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mother	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 whom	punct
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 whom	case
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 went	obl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thought	nsubj
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 whom	acl:relcl
16	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 thought	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 made	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 made	nsubj
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 made	obj
22	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 made	xcomp
23	about	about	ADP	_	25 house	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 house	det
25	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 useful	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 looked	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 looked	cc
28	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
29	after	after	ADP	_	31 hens	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hens	det
31	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 looked	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 milked	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 milked	cc
34	milked	milk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 cow	det
36	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 milked	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	words = word			to words's mother and youngest brother; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location of whom=Destination
2	think speech: other	past	words = word			little property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	past	story	story		useful property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Product
4	look	past	words = word not said here		after the hens		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	milk	past	words = word not said here	the cow			vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Source

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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