The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 31

So they went to the tree and unfastened the cord, and turned to go back to the cave where they had slept, dragging the greyhound after them.

Who acts: eyes · What happens: go, unfasten, turn, go back, sleep, drag · To what, where: tree, cord, greyhound

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 (eyes), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 unfastened	cc
8	unfastened	unfasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cord	det
10	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 unfastened	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 turned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 turned	cc
13	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 turned	xcomp
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 cave	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cave	det
19	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 slept	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 slept	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 slept	aux
23	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 cave	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dragging	punct
25	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 turned	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 greyhound	det
27	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dragging	obj
28	after	after	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 dragging	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	eyes = eye		the tree			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location
2	unfasten	participle	eyes = eye not said here	the cord				vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Patient
3	turn	past	eyes = eye not said here					tree rules
4	go back	to-infinitive	eyes = eye not said here				to the cave result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cave=Result
5	sleep	past · perfect	eyes = eye					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	drag	gerund	eyes = eye not said here	the greyhound		after eyes = eye		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greyhound=Theme

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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