The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 141

It was near sunset, and Martin began to feel hungry, so, when Jack arrived, he bade him return to the castle and bring the bread and cheese that they had left there.

Who acts: midst, Martin, Jack, pieces · What happens: be, begin, feel, arrive, bade, return · To what, where: sunset, Martin, bread

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 (midst, Martin, Jack, pieces), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sunset	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sunset	cop
3	near	near	ADP	_	4 sunset	case
4	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 began	cc
7	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 began	nsubj
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sunset	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 feel	mark
10	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feel	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 arrived	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 arrived	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 arrived	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 arrived	advmod
16	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 arrived	nsubj
17	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 began	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bade	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bade	nsubj
20	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 arrived	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bade	obj
22	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 bade	xcomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 castle	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 castle	det
25	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 return	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 bring	cc
27	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 return	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bread	det
29	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bring	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cheese	cc
31	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bread	conj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 left	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 left	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 left	aux
35	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 bring	advcl
36	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 left	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sunset	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	midst			near sunset	tree rules
2	begin	past	Martin	sunset not said here			tree rules
3	feel	to-infinitive	Martin not said here			hungry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	arrive	past	Jack				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bade	past	Jack	Martin			tree rules
6	return	infinitive	Jack not said here			to the castle result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result
7	bring	infinitive	Jack not said here	the bread and cheese			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bread=Theme
8	leave	past · perfect	pieces = piece		there		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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