The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 108

This made his brothers very angry, for the day was hot and the bags were heavy, and about noon they sat down under a tree and began to eat.

Who acts: This, day, bags · What happens: make, be, sit down, begin, eat · To what, where: brothers, tree

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, day, bags), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 brothers	nmod:poss
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hot	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 hot	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hot	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hot	cop
12	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 heavy	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bags	det
15	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 heavy	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 heavy	cop
17	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hot	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sat	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sat	cc
20	about	about	ADP	_	21 noon	case
21	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sat	obl
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sat	nsubj
23	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 sat	compound:prt
25	under	under	ADP	_	27 tree	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 tree	det
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sat	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 began	cc
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sat	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 eat	mark
31	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	This	Jack's brothers			angry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset brother=Product
2	is	past	the day				hot property	tree rules
3	is	past	the bags				heavy property	tree rules
4	sit down	past	bags = bag		a tree	noon		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
5	begin	past	bags = bag not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	eat	to-infinitive	bags = bag not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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