The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 102

So they went away, and the young man soon stretched himself out on his mat; but his wife's odd conduct made him anxious, and he lay wake all night, listening.

Who acts: words, young man, odd conduct, conduct, wife · What happens: go away, stretch out, make, wake, listen, conduct · To what, where: man, mat

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, young man, odd conduct, conduct), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stretched	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stretched	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stretched	nsubj
10	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 stretched	advmod
11	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 stretched	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	11 stretched	compound:prt
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 mat	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mat	nmod:poss
16	mat	mat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stretched	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 made	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wife	nmod:poss
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 conduct	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 wife	case
22	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 conduct	amod
23	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	nsubj
24	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 made	obj
26	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 made	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 wake	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 wake	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wake	nsubj
30	lay	lay	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 wake	aux
31	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 made	conj
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 night	det
33	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wake	obl:unmarked
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 listening	punct
35	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 wake	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	past	words = word				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stretch out	past	the young man	man	man's mat		soon property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	make	past	man's wife's odd conduct	man			anxious property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
4	wake		conduct			night		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	listen	gerund	conduct not said here					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	conduct		man's wife					nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=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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