The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 98

At length they remembered the goat with golden horns and the bells, and they rejoiced; 'For,' said they, 'THIS time the old woman will be on the watch, and let him be as clever as he likes, the bells on the horns are sure to warn her.'

Who acts: brothers, time, goat, bells · What happens: remember, rejoice, say, be, let, like · To what, where: goat, length, watch, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (brothers, time, goat, bells), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remembered	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 remembered	nsubj
4	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 goat	det
6	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remembered	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 horns	case
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 horns	amod
9	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 remembered	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bells	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bells	det
12	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 horns	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rejoiced	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 rejoiced	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 rejoiced	nsubj
16	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remembered	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 For	punct
19	For	for	SCONJ	_	22 said	mark
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 For	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 For	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remembered	parataxis
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 watch	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 watch	punct
26	THIS	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 watch	nsubj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 woman	det
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 woman	amod
30	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 watch	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 watch	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 watch	cop
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 watch	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 watch	det
35	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 let	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 let	cc
38	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 let	obj
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 clever	cop
41	as	as	ADV	_	42 clever	advmod
42	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 let	xcomp
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 likes	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 likes	nsubj
45	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 clever	advcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 sure	punct
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 bells	det
48	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 sure	nsubj
49	on	on	ADP	_	51 horns	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 horns	det
51	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 bells	nmod
52	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 sure	cop
53	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 likes	conj
54	to	to	PART	_	55 warn	mark
55	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 sure	xcomp
56	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 warn	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 let	punct
58	'	'	PUNCT	_	38 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	remember	past	brothers = brother	the goat		length	with golden horns and the bells	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent goat=Theme
2	rejoice	past	brothers = brother					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	brothers = brother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is	future	this time			the watch		tree rules
5	let	infinitive		goat				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	is	infinitive	goat not said here				clever property	tree rules
7	like	present	goat					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
8	is	present	the bells on the horns				sure property	tree rules
9	warn speech: warn	to-infinitive	the bells on the horns not said here		woman			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

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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