The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 86

And they crept steadily along till at length they reached the mouth of the valley where a ram, a sheep and a lamb were feeding on the rich grass, unconscious of their danger.

Who acts: legs, ram · What happens: creep, reach, feed · To what, where: mouth

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 (legs, ram), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 crept	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crept	nsubj
3	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	3 crept	advmod
5	along	along	ADV	_	3 crept	advmod
6	till	till	ADP	_	8 length	case
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 length	case
8	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crept	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 reached	nsubj
10	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 length	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mouth	det
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reached	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 valley	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 valley	det
15	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mouth	nmod
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 feeding	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 ram	det
18	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 feeding	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sheep	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 sheep	det
21	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ram	appos
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lamb	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 lamb	det
24	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ram	conj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 feeding	aux
26	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 valley	acl
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 grass	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 grass	det
29	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 grass	amod
30	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 feeding	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 unconscious	punct
32	unconscious	unconscious	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 grass	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 danger	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 danger	nmod:poss
35	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 unconscious	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	creep	past	legs = leg		till length	along, steadily property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reach	past	legs = leg	the mouth of the valley			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme
3	feed	past · progressive	a ram and a lamb			on the rich grass and unconscious of ram's danger	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on grass=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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