The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 57

'Open it wide, that I may get in,' cried he; and when he was comfortably rolled up inside he bade the sheep take him on her back, and hasten to the place where she had left the jackal.

Who acts: you, I, sheep, troop · What happens: open, get in, cry, roll up, take, hasten · To what, where: peace, greyhound, bade, back, place, jackal

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 (you, I, sheep, troop), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Open	punct
2	Open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Open	obj
4	wide	wide	ADV	_	2 Open	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 get	punct
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 get	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 get	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 get	aux
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Open	conj
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 get	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 get	conj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cried	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 rolled	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 rolled	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 rolled	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 rolled	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 rolled	aux:pass
20	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	_	21 rolled	advmod
21	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 take	advcl
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 rolled	compound:prt
23	inside	inside	ADP	_	25 bade	case
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 bade	nsubj
25	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rolled	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sheep	det
27	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 take	nsubj
28	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Open	parataxis
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 take	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 back	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 back	nmod:poss
32	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 hasten	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 hasten	cc
35	hasten	hasten	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Open	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 place	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 place	det
38	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hasten	obl
39	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	42 left	advmod
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 left	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 left	aux
42	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 place	acl:relcl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 jackal	det
44	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 left	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Open	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	imperative	you not said here	peace		wide property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	get in	may	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	cry speech: express	past	I not said here	greyhound			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
4	roll up	past · passive		greyhound	bade	comfortably property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme inside bade=Trajectory
5	take	present	the sheep	greyhound	troop's back		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on back=Destination
6	hasten	infinitive	you not said here		the place		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination
7	leave	past · perfect	troop	the jackal			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jackal=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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