The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 117

Martin thanked him, but being very proud, explained that it was only shelter they wanted, as they had plenty of food with them; and he and Michael at once opened their bags and began to eat, while Jack hid himself in a corner.

Who acts: Martin, cutter, fortunes, brother, Jack · What happens: thank, be, explain, want, have, open · To what, where: brother, shelter, plenty, bags, corner · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Martin, cutter, fortunes, brother), 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	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thanked	nsubj
2	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thanked	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 proud	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 proud	cc
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 proud	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 proud	advmod
8	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thanked	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 explained	punct
10	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 proud	parataxis
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 shelter	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 shelter	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 shelter	cop
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 shelter	advmod
15	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 explained	ccomp
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wanted	nsubj
17	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 shelter	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 had	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 explained	conj
22	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 food	case
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 plenty	nmod
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 food	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 opened	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 opened	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 opened	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Michael	cc
31	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 he	conj
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 once	case
33	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	34 opened	obl
34	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thanked	parataxis
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 bags	nmod:poss
36	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 opened	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 began	cc
38	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 opened	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 eat	mark
40	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 began	xcomp
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 hid	punct
42	while	while	SCONJ	_	44 hid	mark
43	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 hid	nsubj
44	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 eat	conj
45	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	44 hid	obj
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 corner	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 corner	det
48	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 hid	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	Martin		brother			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	is	gerund					proud property	tree rules
3	explain speech: assert	past						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	cutter	shelter				tree rules
5	want	past	fortunes = fortune	shelter not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot shelter=Theme
6	have	past	fortunes = fortune	plenty of food with supper				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient
7	open	past	brother	fortunes's bags				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme at once=Location
8	begin	past	brother not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	eat	to-infinitive	brother not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	hide	past	Jack	brother		a corner		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in corner=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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