The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 48

If she wanted wood, he would break the branches off the trees and lay them at her feet.

Who acts: bride, buffalo · What happens: want, break, lay · To what, where: wood, branches, feet

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	8 break	advcl
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 break	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 break	aux
8	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 branches	det
10	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 break	obj
11	off	off	ADP	_	13 trees	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trees	det
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 break	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lay	cc
15	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 break	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lay	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 feet	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 feet	nmod:poss
19	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 lay	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 break	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want a condition, not said to happen	past	bride	wood			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wood=Theme
2	break	would	buffalo	the branches		off the trees	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent branch=Patient off tree=Co-Patient
3	lay	infinitive	buffalo not said here	branches = branch	bride's feet		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme at foot=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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