The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 6

The first thing he did when he reached the shore was to look about for a piece of wood, and when he had found it he hid himself close to the hut, till it grew quite dark and near the hour when the witch and her daughter went to bed.

Who acts: goat, first thing, thing, witch · What happens: do, reach, be, find, hide, grow · To what, where: first thing, shore, goat, bed

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 (goat, first thing, thing, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 look	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 reached	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reached	nsubj
8	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shore	det
10	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reached	obj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 look	cop
12	to	to	PART	_	13 look	mark
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	about	about	ADV	_	13 look	advmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 piece	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 piece	det
17	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 look	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 wood	case
19	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 piece	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hid	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hid	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 found	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 found	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 found	aux
25	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 hid	advcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 found	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hid	nsubj
28	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 look	advcl
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 hid	obj
30	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hid	xcomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 hut	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hut	det
33	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 close	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 grew	punct
35	till	till	SCONJ	_	37 grew	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 grew	nsubj
37	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 look	parataxis
38	quite	quite	ADV	_	39 dark	advmod
39	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 grew	advcl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 hour	cc
41	near	near	ADP	_	43 hour	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 hour	det
43	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 dark	conj
44	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	50 went	advmod
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 witch	det
46	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 went	nsubj
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 daughter	cc
48	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 daughter	nmod:poss
49	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 witch	conj
50	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 grew	advcl
51	to	to	ADP	_	52 bed	case
52	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 went	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	goat	the first thing not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	reach	past	goat	the shore			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme
3	is	past	the first thing			for a piece of wood; about, look property	tree rules
4	find	past · perfect	goat	shore			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	hide	past	goat	goat		close property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
6	grow	past	thing				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	go	past	the witch and head's daughter		bed		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=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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