The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 111

But when they reached the farmhouse the jackal said to the hedgehog: 'Go in and fetch the pots of butter and I will hide them in a safe place.'

Who acts: jackals, I · What happens: reach, say, go in, fetch, hide · To what, where: farmhouse, pots, jackals, safe place · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (jackals, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	4 reached	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 farmhouse	det
6	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 jackal	det
8	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 hedgehog	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hedgehog	det
12	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 Go	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 Go	punct
15	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
16	in	in	ADV	_	15 Go	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fetch	cc
18	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 Go	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pots	det
20	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fetch	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 butter	case
22	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pots	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hide	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 hide	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 hide	aux
26	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Go	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hide	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 place	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 place	det
30	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 place	amod
31	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hide	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 Go	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	jackals = jackal	the farmhouse			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent farmhouse=Beneficiary jackal=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past				to the hedgehog	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to hedgehog=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	go in	infinitive					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fetch	infinitive		the pots of butter			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme
5	hide	future	I	jackals = jackal	a safe place		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient in place=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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