The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 110

Out there both boys and girls marry early, and very soon, it seemed to the mother, a message was sent by a rich man on the other side of the great hills offering a fat herd of oxen in exchange for the girl.

Who acts: boys, it, rich man, great hills · What happens: marry, seem, send, offer · To what, where: message, other side, fat herd, exchange

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, it, rich man, great hills), 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	Out	out	ADV	_	2 there	advmod
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 marry	advmod
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 boys	det
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 marry	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 girls	cc
6	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 boys	conj
7	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 marry	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seemed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 seemed	cc
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 soon	advmod
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 seemed	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seemed	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seemed	nsubj
15	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 marry	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 mother	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mother	det
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seemed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sent	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 message	det
21	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sent	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sent	aux:pass
23	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 seemed	conj
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 man	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
26	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sent	obl
28	on	on	ADP	_	31 side	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 side	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 side	amod
31	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sent	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 hills	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hills	det
34	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 hills	amod
35	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 side	nmod
36	offering	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 hills	acl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 herd	det
38	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 herd	amod
39	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 offering	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 oxen	case
41	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 herd	nmod
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 exchange	case
43	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 offering	obl
44	for	for	ADP	_	46 girl	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 girl	det
46	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 exchange	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 marry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	marry	present	both boys and girls		there	early property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	seem	past	it			to the mother; soon property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	send	past · passive	a rich man	a message	the other side of the great hills		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4	offer	gerund	the great hills not said here	a fat herd of oxen	exchange for the girl		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent herd=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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