The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 55

And the sheep hastened away to fetch one.

Who acts: sheep · What happens: hasten away, fetch · To what, where: one

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 (sheep), 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	_	4 hastened	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sheep	det
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hastened	nsubj
4	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 hastened	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fetch	mark
7	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hastened	advcl
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 fetch	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hasten away	participle	the sheep					away property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	fetch	to-infinitive	the sheep not said here	one					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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