The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 59

And passing the table to the old man, he hung the bag over his arm.

Who acts: man · What happens: pass, hang · To what, where: table, old man, bag, arm

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 (man), 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	_	11 hung	cc
2	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 hung	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 table	det
4	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passing	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 man	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 passing	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hung	nsubj
11	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bag	det
13	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hung	obj
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 arm	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 arm	nmod:poss
16	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hung	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	gerund	man not said here	the table	the old man				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent table=Theme to man=Recipient
2	hang	past	man	the bag		man's arm			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme over arm=Destination

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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