The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 46

If she wanted water, she had only to cross the patch of maize behind the hut and seek out the place where the buffalo lay hidden, and put down her pail beside him.

Who acts: bride, buffalo · What happens: want, have, cross, seek out, lie, hide · To what, where: water, patch, hut, place, pail

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 (bride, buffalo), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 wanted	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	advcl
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 cross	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 cross	mark
10	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 patch	det
12	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cross	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 maize	case
14	maize	maize	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 patch	nmod
15	behind	behind	ADP	_	17 hut	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hut	det
17	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cross	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 seek	cc
19	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cross	conj
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 seek	compound:prt
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 place	det
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seek	obj
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 lay	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 buffalo	det
25	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lay	nsubj
26	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 place	acl:relcl
27	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 lay	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 put	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 put	cc
30	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cross	conj
31	down	down	ADP	_	30 put	compound:prt
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 pail	nmod:poss
33	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 put	obj
34	beside	beside	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 put	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want a condition, not said to happen	past	bride	water			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme
2	have	past	bride				tree rules
3	cross	to-infinitive	bride not said here	the patch of maize	the hut		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=Patient
4	seek out	infinitive	bride not said here	the place			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
5	lie	past	the buffalo				tree rules
6	hide	participle	the buffalo not said here				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	put down	infinitive	bride not said here	bride's pail		beside buffalo	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pail=Theme beside he=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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