The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 59

The animal he saw most of was a hyena; and one day, when they were taking a walk together, they picked up a beautiful green cloak, which had evidently been dropped by some one riding across the plain on a camel.

Who acts: animal, jackals, one riding · What happens: see, be, take, pick up, drop · To what, where: most, walk, beautiful green cloak

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 (animal, jackals, one riding), 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	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 saw	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 hyena	case
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hyena	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hyena	det
9	hyena	hyena	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 most	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 day	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 day	cc
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 day	nummod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 taking	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 taking	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 taking	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 taking	aux
18	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 day	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 walk	det
20	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taking	obj
21	together	together	ADV	_	18 taking	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 picked	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 picked	nsubj
24	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 picked	compound:prt
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 cloak	det
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cloak	amod
28	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cloak	amod
29	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 picked	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 dropped	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 dropped	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 dropped	aux
33	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	35 dropped	advmod
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 dropped	aux:pass
35	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 cloak	acl:relcl
36	by	by	ADP	_	39 riding	case
37	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	39 riding	det
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 riding	nummod
39	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 dropped	obl
40	across	across	ADP	_	42 plain	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 plain	det
42	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 riding	nmod
43	on	on	ADP	_	45 camel	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 camel	det
45	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 plain	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the animal	most	day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer most=Stimulus
2	is	past				of a hyena	tree rules
3	take	past · progressive	jackals = jackal	a walk		together property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme
4	pick up	past	jackals = jackal	a beautiful green cloak			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Topic
5	drop	past · perfect · passive	some one riding across the plain on a camel	a beautiful green cloak		evidently property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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