The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 27

And signing to him to sit down with him under a tree, he set the table in front of them, and struck it three times, crying:

Who acts: Jack · What happens: sign, sit down, set, strike, cry · To what, where: Jack, tree, table, front

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 (Jack), 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	_	15 set	cc
2	signing	sign	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 set	advcl
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 signing	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sit	mark
6	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 signing	advcl
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 sit	compound:prt
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sit	obl
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 tree	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sit	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 signing	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 set	nsubj
15	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 table	det
17	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 set	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 front	case
19	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 set	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 front	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 struck	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 struck	cc
24	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 set	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 struck	obj
26	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 times	nummod
27	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 struck	obl:unmarked
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 crying	punct
29	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 struck	advcl
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sign	gerund	Jack not said here		Jack				vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	sit down	to-infinitive	Jack not said here			a tree		with Jack	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
3	set	past	Jack	the table		front of table			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent table=Theme in front=Destination
4	strike	past	Jack not said here	front			time		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	cry speech: express	gerund	Jack not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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