The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 141

However, they all took their places on wooden seats placed round the dead cow, which was laid across the boughs of a fallen tree, and began their dinner, each jackal fixing his eyes greedily on the piece of meat before him.

Who acts: numbers, jackal · What happens: take, place, lay, fall, begin, fix · To what, where: places, wooden seats, dead cow, boughs, dinner, eyes

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 (numbers, jackal), 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	However	however	ADV	_	5 took	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 they	det
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 places	nmod:poss
7	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 took	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 seats	case
9	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 seats	amod
10	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 took	obl
11	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 seats	acl
12	round	round	ADP	_	15 cow	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cow	det
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cow	amod
15	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 placed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 laid	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 laid	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 laid	aux:pass
19	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 cow	acl:relcl
20	across	across	ADP	_	22 boughs	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 boughs	det
22	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 laid	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 tree	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 tree	det
25	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 tree	amod
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 boughs	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 began	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 began	cc
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 dinner	nmod:poss
31	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 began	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 jackal	punct
33	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	34 jackal	det
34	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dinner	appos
35	fixing	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 jackal	acl
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 eyes	nmod:poss
37	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 fixing	obj
38	greedily	greedily	ADV	_	35 fixing	advmod
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 piece	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 piece	det
41	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fixing	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 meat	case
43	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 piece	nmod
44	before	before	ADP	_	45 him	case
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 began	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	numbers = number	numbers's places	wooden seats		however property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme on seat=Destination
2	place	participle		wooden seats not said here			round the dead cow	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent
3	lay	past · passive		the dead cow	the boughs of a fallen tree			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
4	fall	participle						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	begin	past	numbers = number not said here	numbers's dinner		before Jackal		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Eventuality
6	fix	gerund	each jackal not said here	Jackal's eyes	the piece of meat		greedily property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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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