The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 108

We could easily get in at the window of the shed where she keeps the butter, and I will watch, lest some one should come unexpectedly, while you have a good meal.

Who acts: We, wife, I, one, you · What happens: get in, keep, watch, come, have · To what, where: window, butter, good meal

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, wife, I, one), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	easily	easily	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 shed	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shed	det
11	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 window	nmod
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 keeps	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 keeps	nsubj
14	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 shed	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 butter	det
16	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 keeps	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 watch	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 watch	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 watch	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 watch	aux
21	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 come	punct
23	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	27 come	mark
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 one	det
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 come	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 come	aux
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 watch	conj
28	unexpectedly	unexpectedly	ADV	_	27 come	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 have	punct
30	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 have	mark
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 have	nsubj
32	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 come	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 meal	det
34	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 meal	amod
35	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 have	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get in	could	We		the window of the shed	easily property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	keep	present	wife	the butter			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butter=Theme
3	watch	future	I				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	come	should	some one			unexpectedly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	present	you	a good meal			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=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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