The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 28

Here he is well fed and lies on soft grass; but how can you tell what will befall him in another country?

Who acts: you · What happens: feed, lie, tell, befall · To what, where: life, soft grass, country · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 fed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fed	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fed	aux:pass
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 fed	advmod
5	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lies	cc
7	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fed	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 grass	case
9	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grass	amod
10	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lies	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 tell	cc
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 tell	advmod
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 tell	nsubj
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fed	conj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 befall	obj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 befall	aux
19	befall	befall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tell	ccomp
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 befall	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 country	case
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	23 country	det
23	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 befall	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feed	present · passive		life	here	well property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
2	lie	present			soft grass		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location
3	tell speech: assert	can	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	befall	future		life	another country		tree rules

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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