The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 14

Then, while the animal was eating it, he stuffed each golden bell with wool which he had also brought with him, stopping every minute to listen, lest the witch should awaken, and he should find himself changed into some dreadful bird or beast.

Who acts: animal, witch · What happens: eat, stuff, bring, stop, listen, awaken · To what, where: food, golden bell, animal

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animal, witch), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 stuffed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 eating	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 animal	det
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eating	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eating	aux
7	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 stuffed	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eating	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eating	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stuffed	nsubj
11	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 bell	det
13	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bell	amod
14	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stuffed	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 wool	case
16	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bell	nmod
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 brought	nsubj:pass
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 brought	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 brought	aux
20	also	also	ADV	_	21 brought	advmod
21	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 bell	acl:relcl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 brought	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stopping	punct
25	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 stuffed	advcl
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 minute	det
27	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stopping	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 listen	mark
29	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 stopping	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 awaken	punct
31	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	35 awaken	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 witch	det
33	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 awaken	nsubj
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 awaken	aux
35	awaken	awaken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 listen	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 find	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 find	cc
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 find	nsubj
39	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 find	aux
40	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 stuffed	conj
41	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 find	obj
42	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 find	xcomp
43	into	into	ADP	_	46 bird	case
44	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	46 bird	det
45	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 bird	amod
46	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 changed	obl
47	or	or	CCONJ	_	48 beast	cc
48	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 bird	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 stuffed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · progressive	the animal	food			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	stuff	past	animal	each golden bell	then	with wool	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent bell=Destination with wool=Theme
3	bring	past · perfect · passive		each golden bell		with animal	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
4	stop	gerund	animal not said here		minute		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	listen	to-infinitive	animal not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	awaken	should	the witch				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	find	should	animal	animal			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme
8	change	participle	animal not said here			into some dreadful bird or beast result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into bird=Result

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/17/14/